Six of the Houston Texans’ nine selections in the 2022 NFL draft came from the Southeastern Conference with five of those picks coming from the vaunted SEC West.
General manager Nick Caserio acknowledged that picking players from the SEC does allow the scouting department to take into account the level of competition prospects are going against on a weekly basis.
“One of the things you have to be conscious of is evaluating that player and the competition that he is playing against,” Caserio said. “I mean, that’s a fair part of the evaluation. You can’t totally discard that. It’s a part of it. Then you actually have to look at the player. Do the skills that he shows regardless of level of competition, are those going to transfer over into our level? You kind of have some ideas.”
