For those Texans fans expecting a repeat AFC South division title after the team's offseason retooling on offense, a leading NFL analyst doesn't share your optimism.
NFL Media analyst Gil Brandt, best known for his role as the personnel director who helped build the Dallas Cowboys' powerhouse teams of the 1970s, has the Texans listed as his third-most vulnerable 2015 division winner heading into next season.
And while Brandt noted the Texans' free-agent additions such as quarterback Brock Osweiler and running back Lamar Miller and the offensive-minded draft that netted receivers Will Fuller and Braxton Miller and center Nick Martin while calling Bill O'Brien "one of the better coaches in the NFL," he made a rather surprising prediction for the 2016 AFC South champion.