On Wednesday, just before the NHL held its expansion draft for the Seattle Kraken, Bleacher Report's Gary Davenport took a stab at establishing which five players each NFL team would leave unprotected in the event of a pro football expansion draft.
As Davenport stated, the rules when the Houston Texans entered the league in 2002 were as follows: Each team had to leave five players unprotected. If the Texans chose a player, that team could pull one of its remaining four off the board. If Houston picked two players from a specific team, then the final three could be pulled back.