Nix is simply last year's winner of the Bennie Joppru Award. Seems every year the Texans draft someone who turns out to be entirely useless - typically in the second or third round.
2002 - Charles Hill, 3rd rd.
2002 - (suppl) Tony Hollings, 2nd rd
2003 - Bennie Joppru, 2nd rd., Seth Wand, 3rd rd., Dave Ragone, 3rd rd.
2004 - traded 2nd and 3rd to Tenn for Jason Babin
2005 - Vernand Morency, 3rd rd.
2006 - Charles Spencer, 3rd rd.
2007 - traded 2nd for Matt Schaub
2008 - traded 2nd for Matt Schaub, Antwuan Molden, 3rd rd.
2011 - Brandon Harris, 2nd rd.
2012 - DeVier Posey, 3rd rd*
2013 - Brennan Williams, 3rd rd, Sam Montgomery, 3rd rd.
2014 - Louis Nix, 3rd rd
* - could still merit his selection but it looks less likely each year.
So, as you can see, our record in the 2nd and 3rd sucks ass more often than not under both Casserly and Smith. 2009 and 2010 are the only years where they didn't pick a dud in either round (or traded away the pick) although one could argue about Antoine Caldwell in 2009.
They should probably lock Smith out of the war room on Day 2 and let a blind squirrel do their drafting. The squirrel might do better.
Last edited by HPF Bob; 04-03-2015 at 09:05 AM.
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