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2018 Houston Texans Training Camp: What’s The Most Competitive Position Battle? Next week Cheap Xavier Crawford Jersey , the Texans will start practicing out in West Virginia to prepare for the 2018 NFL season. They’ll be running around in shorts. The roster invitees with slim chances will be splattering each other across the field. Football will kind of sort of be back until it’s actually back during the second week of September. My favorite parts of training camp are the position battles and breakout players. We know the veterans who will continue to produce, but training camp is beneficial for those trying to leap into a starting spot, or nail down their same job, or watch the light bulb flicker and stay illuminated for a young guy who finally gets it. In this mold, Bleacher Report posted an article regarding each team’s most wide open training camp battle. This is what they had to say about the Texans:As someone who has written like 100,000 words on the Texans’ offensive line, I disagree with this claim. I feel like Juli’en Davenport will go into training camp as the starting left tackle and leave as the starting left tackle, especially if he got strong this past offseason. If his biceps are plumper, his quadriceps carved above his knees like a crescent moon Xavier Crawford Jersey Womens , and his neck is immovable, he’s the most talented offensive tackle on this roster and should walk away with this spot. Additionally, Davenport really doesn’t have any competition at left tackle. Martinas Rankin and Seantrel Henderson are right tackles.Henderson is going to be really bad, and Rankin may not be healthy until Week One (or later) after suffering a foot injury. Kendall Lamm doesn’t exist. There isn’t anyone really here to play bloody knuckles with Davenport. I believe the most wide open position battle will be the other defensive end spot. I’m expecting the secondary to be fluid with players playing a variety of different positions since Romeo Crennel doesn’t have a true number one cornerback at his disposal, he looooves to use 5+ defensive backs, and the team has three legitimate safeties. There won’t be a real position by position depth chart battle. This unit should be fairly positionless. The more interesting question on defense will be who will play the opposite side of J.J. Watt. Jadeveon Clowney should move back to outside linebacker, making this position vacant. You got Christian Covington, who’s bounced between inconsistent and injured. You got Carlos Watkins, who produced in college without doing anything spectacular and still managed to play competently last year.You got Brandon Dunn and Joel Heath Xavier Crawford Houston Texans Jersey , who played 40.8% and 31.6% of the team’s defensive snaps last year, and I can’t remember a single one. There’s a lot of options for this spot, and no one stands out. If the team stays healthy, the Texans will have one of the best front sevens in football, and that’s without including any production from the other defensive end spot. If Houston can get anything from the other DE position, this should push their base pass rush over the top and give Whitney Mercilus and Jadeveon Clowney more room to roam, which is a horrifying thought. As of right now, my best guess is Christian Covington will win the job. He’s had it before, and he played surprisingly well last year before being lost to injury. However Xavier Crawford Jersey 2019 , we’ve seen it before. We’ve expected Covington to provide something, and then he provides nothing. Hopefully this year will be different. Hey, that there is a new offensive tackle."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Texans StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Texans NewsYahoo Texans Team PageYahoo Texans ReportYahoo Texans Depth ChartYahoo Texans TransactionsYahoo Texans PhotosOdds About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub ✕2019 NFL Free Agency2019 Houston Texans Offseason2019 NFL Free Agency News: Houston Texans Sign Matt KalilNew,199commentsHey, that there is a new offensive tackle. CDTShareTweetShareShare2019 NFL Free Agency News: Houston Texans Sign Matt KalilKim Klement-USA TODAY SportsThe Houston Texans entered free agency with a bunch of money and a bunch of offensive line needs. They sat on their dollars and watched as Trent Brown and Ja’Wuan James were given obscene amounts of dollars to go to Oakland and Denver, respectively. This was the right decision. I admired the decision. Overpaying for mediocre players is how teams stifle their performance and obliterate their cap space. Yet the Texans still need competition at the tackle position at a bare minimum. If a plug and play starter couldn’t be found on a contract that made sense, they’d have to search under rocks to find someone.Anyone. Houston’s tackles were Juli’en Davenport and Seantrel Henderson a day ago. Then yesterday went flying by amd the Texans signed 29 year old Matt Kalil to a one-year contract. Kalil missed all of last season with a knee injury. The Panthers signed him to a five-year, $55 million contract after his rookie contract ended with the Vikings. In Carolina, the Panthers were stuck doing the same things the Texans did last season with cheap tackles; they were chipping Xavier Crawford Jersey Mens , sliding, and helping Kalil and Mike Remmers in pass protection to make up for Kalil’s weak hands and Remmers’s slow feet. This is exactly what you can’t do when you pay a tackle $11 million a year. Kalil should provide competition at left tackle competition. But he hasn’t been good since his rookie year, and at this point, isn’t even as good as ‘I know I’m starting at left tackle’ Juli’en Davenport. With Kalil, Davenport, and Henderson on the roster, look for Houston to draft a tackle in the first or second round of the 2019 NFL Draft and then watch these four tear each other apart for September playing time.