{"id":25082,"date":"2025-05-05T06:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/25082\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T06:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:59:09","slug":"texans-rookie-pff-grades-from-2024-college-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/25082\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans rookie PFF grades from 2024 college season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Houston Texans<\/a> added\u00a0nine new rookies\u00a0to the roster during the 2025 NFL draft, including a couple of playmakers for quarterback C.J. Stroud as Nick Caley steps in the new offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Texans had four picks on Day 2 after trading with the New York Giants<\/a> for the No. 25 overall pick. The quartet of talent included some impactful additions of Iowa State<\/a> wide receiver Jayden Higgins and Jaylin Noel, Minnesota offensive tackle Aireontae Ersery and defensive back Jaylin Smith They also added some high upside rookies in running back \u00a0running back Woody Marks<\/a>,\u00a0defensive back Jaylen Reed<\/a>, defensive tackle Kyonte Hamilton and tight end Luke Lachey on Day 3.<\/p>\n

Several of the Texans\u2019 draft picks posted great Relative Athletic Scores (RAS). But how did they grade out at Pro Football Focus during the 2024 college season?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look:<\/p>\n

Round 2, No. 34: WR Jayden Higgins, Iowa StateRound 2, No. 48: OT Aireontae Ersery, MinnesotaRound 3, No. 79: WR Jaylin Noel, Iowa StateRound 3, No. 97: DB Jaylin Smith, USCRound 4, No. 116: RB Woody Marks, USCRound 6, Pick 187: DB Jaylen Reed, Penn StateRound 6, Pick 197: QB Graham Mertz, FloridaRound 7, Pick 244: Kyonte Hamilton, DL, RutgersRound 7, Pick 256: Luke Lachey, TE, Iowa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Houston Texans added\u00a0nine new rookies\u00a0to the roster during the 2025 NFL draft, including a couple of playmakers for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[204,80,247,265,1456,1028,318,339,522,19,7,519,221,253,2368,521,535,248,267,206,56,88,6,15,245,537,530,818,817,829,9,266,376,819,1457,222,776,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-25082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-204","9":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-american-football","12":"tag-c-j","13":"tag-c-j-stroud","14":"tag-college","15":"tag-college-sports","16":"tag-cyclones","17":"tag-draft","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-giants","20":"tag-houston","21":"tag-houston-texans","22":"tag-houstontexans","23":"tag-iowa","24":"tag-iowa-state-cyclones-football","25":"tag-national","26":"tag-national-sports","27":"tag-new","28":"tag-new-york-giants","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-nfl","31":"tag-nfl-draft","32":"tag-overall","33":"tag-overall-positive","34":"tag-positive","35":"tag-scores","36":"tag-sport","37":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-sports-news","40":"tag-state","41":"tag-statistics","42":"tag-stroud","43":"tag-texans","44":"tag-u0026","45":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114453935903547216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}