Did Texans Whiff on Trade Up in 2026 NFL Draft?
Nick Caserio's aggressive pursuit of a top-20 pick fell short when Carolina refused to slide back, leaving Houston to pivot toward guard Keylan Rutledge instead.
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'cause like when you're young, dude, like people forget in college you're still like a kid, bro.
Yeah, you're a kid.
Like you're 18, 19, 20.
For you to like have a coach come in and like jokingly say, and you realize to have like the wherewithal right off the bat, be like Most kids would've stuck it out two, three years before they decided to move from quarterback.
You did it off the jump, and then you moved several times.
So that to me, it tell And, and I feel like a lot of people too would be apprehensive because you may work at one position and you may have like self-doubt, like, "Oh no, I can only do this."
Like, I feel like in football people get put in positions and get stuck there.
It's very rare that players are, you know, confident enough to try, like brave enough to try new positions, and then talented enough too.
So like was that kind of a challenge as well?
Or like you wanna speak to that mental side of that?
No, I th- I, it wasn't.
I think, and I, you know, I do shout out my dad and some of the stuff that I went to in high school and coming up.
I never I've always trusted my ability.
I w- I was an athlete from a kid all the way up to now.
Like, I still think I'm an athlete.
I still think I can go play tight end or receiver, you know?
Like, that's just who I am.
My mentality is I can do whatever is in front of me.
but I think playing different positions as a kid, playing linebacker, and, and youth football, playing safety all the way up through high school, playing quarterback, wanting to play safety once I got to the new school, playing receiver in, in middle sch- or in middle school.
All that stuff, it led up to this, so I, I was already confident that I can do, I can switch over easy.
Like, it's not gonna be an issue.
Maybe getting on the field was gonna be an issue, but I'm like if I work hard enough, I'm smart enough, I believed I was smart enough to know the playbook, to get in.
It may not look right, you know?
I may not look like a receiver, but if you throw that ball to me I'm gonna try my hardest to catch it.
I got, and I, and I trusted my hands or, you know, stuff like that.
So-
