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Pretty sure that he hurt his knee again after the draft.I must be mistaken because I can't find it online. Sorry about that.
I disagree, I think Green gets waived, not Brown. Green is pretty much toast at this point, he's been hurt and missed at least 10 games in two of the past three seasons. Brown is younger, faster, but perhaps just as injury-prone as Green...but all things being equal,you go with the younger,faster guy every time.If Brown finally puts it all together , he's probably looking at receiving a fat new contract for 2009 and beyond..I'm willing to take on chance on him with the notion that he's going to be the main guy in Houston this season..if the injury bug bites again, his NFL career is over..
Same knee or something new?
You have to figure the Texans will pick up a FA RB. Now that Jordan is on the market he might be considered. I don't rule out Benson ending up here also, I think their looking at who they can get on the cheap side, waiting game going on now with all the FA RB's SA, Benson, Jordan, etc.
This is total and utter speculation, but I'd say something new. He didn't do anything that I saw that made me think it was a knee, no grabbing it or hobbling like he didn't want to put weight on the joint. I think he might have just pulled something or maybe got a stinger. I think he went down kind of awkwardly, but I don't think his feet were planted to where it would have been likely to be a knee.Take that with a big grain of salt until we hear anything concrete, though.
From understanding it was a hammy tweak. Not thought to be serious at the moment.
The way he was sitting after he went down (kind of gingerly stretching his legs out), I think hammy tweak is very likely, yeah. It also would explain why he went down in the first place. He was in some traffic but I didn't think he got hit, I thought he more went down on his own or slipped.
Better news from houstontexans.com
I think Taylor has been closer just a guy who is hanging around than any type of future starter except for the fact that he played 1 good regular season game, is with a zone blocking team and most importantly every other RB on the Texans is a combination of injured/old/mediocore.
They worked him at FB last year in camp too ... its always been an angle they have tried to give him more value and a better shot of making the team.
Don't know what is going on inside the bubble and at other practices. But today he was still lining up at tailback. If he took any snaps at all at fullback, I didn't notice it. But he was a regular in the tailback rotation.
Haven't heard anything new and the public camps are done. I wish we had all of our camps open like some teams do.
First pre-season game is Saturday night, so we should get another look at him then.
I'm starting to think this too. I happily snapped him up last year and held onto him as a flier, but if you can't stand out even a little bit in that poor group of RB's then you've got to wonder what he can possibly accomplish. I'll hold onto him for now, but I'm no longer optimistic.
this is a note I linked in the texans off-season's thread,I'm starting to think this too. I happily snapped him up last year and held onto him as a flier, but if you can't stand out even a little bit in that poor group of RB's then you've got to wonder what he can possibly accomplish. I'll hold onto him for now, but I'm no longer optimistic.
From a fantasy standpoint, if your league is deep enough or you have a taxi squad, Taylor is in as good a spot as a guy who is probably RB4 could be. Heck, even if he gets cut by the Texans, given the history of the other guys, Chris should stay by the phone.
