The Houston Texans First Pick and Mario Williams

[erpowers]

What do Houston Texans fans think about the team's first draft pick? I am not a Texans fan, but I do not like this year's pick. I might be wrong, but I think they might have been better getting an offensive linemen instead of a defensive linemen. In addition, I have heard this guy is a bit small for the position. So what do others think?

On another subject what do Texans fans think about Mario Williams. Was his first season a bust? I do not really want anyone to compare him to Vince Young or Reggie Bush I just want to know how people feel about him based on what he did last year. I heard at least one person say he may have been a bust. That person is hoping that with this pick Williams might do better. I think last year he had about 40+ tackles and about 4-6 sacks while another player Demeco Ryan, who was pick later in the draft, had about 90+ tackles.

[PDittie]

1. He's pretty young

and pretty good, too. In football and in life, it appears:

Amobi Okoye was walking at 7-months-old and by 1 he amused himself by pushing dining chairs across the kitchen floor. So it seems normal to his mother, Edna Okoye, that her 19-year-old "baby boy," picked 10th by Houston, would be the youngest player taken in the first round of the NFL draft since the merger.

"From the time I had him he has been ahead of everything he has to do," Edna Okoye said on Sunday after the defensive tackle was introduced in Houston.

Okoye started high school at age 12 and was enrolled at Louisville by 16. He earned a degree in psychology in just 3 1/2 years while becoming a leader on Louisville's defense. He lived in Nigeria until the age of 12 and didn't know much about football before moving to the United States.

"I remember seeing a couple of clips in Nigeria and wondering what they were doing," he said.

He first got involved in football because "my parents thought I was getting fat," but soon learned to love it and earned all-state honors as a 14-year-old high school senior.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/sports/4759341.html

[northzax]

2. remarkable, isn't it?

having a 19 year old in the NFL who graduated from college? he's certainly smart, which is a good start. the problem is, linemen hit their prime about about 25-26 usually, at 19, he's still growing, can he take the pounding of an NFL season?