Jordan Palmer says Deshaun Watson is THE guy that NFL head coaches and general managers want to work with right now. Also: Mark Lane of TexansWire believes Buddy Howell deserves carries at RB for the final three games of the season.
“This is the most enticing employee in the NFL to work with right now,” Palmer said of Watson during Tuesday’s episode of The Herd w/Colin Cowherd. “If you’re a GM, you want this job. If you’re a coach, you want this job. If you’re a free-agent wide receiver, you want to go play for this team. . . . He’s going to build a championship there at some point.”
Texans need not be bashful about giving RB Buddy Howell more carries
By Mark Lane, TexansWire
Excerpt: Houston already knows what it has in running backs David Johnson and Duke Johnson. However, Howell has toiled away playing special teams and seeing other running backs such as Lamar Miller, Alfred Blue, D’Onta Foreman, Carlos Hyde, and Taiwan Jones get their chances in the past three seasons. Given that Howell is in the last year of his rookie contract with the Texans, there wouldn’t be a better time to see what Howell can offer in the final three games.
Against the Chicago Bears amid the 36-7 loss at Soldier Field, Howell tallied 11 carries for 42 yards, and that was also the game where he logged his only career catch to date. The 6-1, 215-pound bruiser provided a burst up the middle and contact that Texans runners have lacked in 2020.
Playing Howell also gives the 24-year-old a chance to put more of his body of work on film, an opportunity he missed out on with there being zero preseason games in 2020. As Howell enters free agency, having evidence on tape of what he could bring to a backfield, whether in Houston or elsewhere, would be beneficial to helping him earn that second contract.