When Anthony Weaver earned a promotion to the Houston Texans’ defensive coordinator role earlier this year, he would have been acutely aware of the challenge awaiting him after a 2019 season in which the Houston Texans ranked near the bottom of the league in most major categories. Weaver inherits a unit whose lingering memory from last season is of Whitehouse, Texas native Patrick Mahomes and eventual Super Bowl Champion Chiefs lighting them up for 51 points.
The upside is Weaver’s intimate knowledge of the defensive room puts him in a strong position to steer the group back to respectability having been with the franchise since 2016.