Rick Smith, Bill O’Brien and supporting staff began the offseason with a plan. They knew the team needed a franchise type quarterback and a game breaking wide receiver to relieve the pressure on star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins. Their plan began to unfold with the acquisition of free agent quarterback Brock Osweiler and was further executed by moving up a spot in the first round of the draft to select Notre Dame wide receiver Will Fuller.
Of course there were other important acquisitions in free agency, the draft, and perhaps undrafted free agency; but Osweiler and Fuller are the cornerstones of a plan apparently well executed by the Texans’ brain trust.