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The Texans confirmed that Tim Kelly will be their new offensive coordinator on Monday in a release announcing their full coaching staff.Word came over Super Bowl weekend that Kelly was going to be promoted from tight ends coach with Will Lawing taking his place as a position coach in Houston. The release also reveals that former Seahawks assistant Carl Smith will be the team’s quarterbacks coach and that former quarterback T.J. Yates has joined Bill O’Brien’s staff as an offensive assistant.Akeem Dent is another former Texans player who has joined the staff as a defensive assistant. Interestingly Womens Jadeveon Clowney Jersey , the Texans once traded Yates to the Falcons in order to acquire Dent.Danny Barrett (running backs), Mike Devlin (offensive line), John Perry (wide receivers) and John Aylward (offensive assistant) round out the offensive staff. Romeo Crennel returns as defensive coordinator along with all of the team’s position coaches on the defensive side of the ball.Special teams coordinator Brad Seely and assistant special teams coordinator Tracy Smith both return to the team as well. Brian Cushing and Joe Distor have joined the strength and conditioning staff under Mike Eubanks. Clay Hampton will be the director of football operations and Doug West will serve as O’Brien’s assistant. The Houston Texans recently interviewed two African-Americans, Ray Farmer and Martin Mayhew, for their General Manager vacancy. Then the Texans tried to hire Nick Caserio for the job. Then the Texans didn’t hire anyone when Caserio couldn’t get out of his contract with the Patriots.That leads to an obvious question: Were the interviews with Farmer and Mayhew legitimate? Or were they a violation of the spirit of the Rooney Rule http://www.thetexanslockerroom.com/authentic-tyler-ervin-jersey , an attempt to check the box by interviewing minorities but not really giving them an opportunity to get the job?When PFT put that question today to the Fritz Pollard Alliance’s new executive director, Rod Graves, Graves said he had some concerns about how the Texans conducted their G.M. search.“We are concerned about how the Rooney Rule was used,” Graves said. “They brought those gentlemen in quickly, gave the impression they were looking to make a fast decision Jordan Thomas Jersey , and then they came off of it.”Despite reports that the Texans do not plan to hire a G.M., Graves said he still hopes Farmer or Mayhew gets a shot.“I have not heard definitively that they have abandoned their process of replacing their general manager, but if they have, it is a concern,” Graves said. “It is a concern that two outstanding candidates Womens Will Fuller V Jersey , Martin Mayhew and Ray Farmer, were not part of their alternative plan even if, in fact, they had an initial option of looking at Nick Caserio first. I understand the reasons why Nick may have been appealing, but through my own experience DeAndre Hopkins Jersey White , we’ve always gone into interviews with a Plan B.”Graves said the Fritz Pollard Alliance would be happy to help the Texans identify candidates for the job, which remains vacant.“The fact that they interviewed two outstanding candidates and chose not to make a decision after not being able to get their first choice, to me is a concern in the fact that it does circumvent the spirit of the Rooney Rule,” Graves said. “And if there are other reasons why those candidates are not appealing, then we’d like to know how we can help to possibly bring others to the table. I think there are many others out there who are qualified and who deserve an opportunity to be interviewed.”Graves points to what has become a common refrain about the Rooney Rule: NFL teams have all agreed to abide by its letter Seantrel Henderson Jersey , but many teams have circumvented its spirit.