{"id":872318,"date":"2026-04-23T01:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872318\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:12:23","slug":"texans-looking-to-trade-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872318\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans Looking To Trade Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LanceZierlein\/status\/2047114462457733361?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Lance Zierlein<\/a>, the Houston Texans have been quietly looking to trade up in the first round of Thursday\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-667996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/USATSI_27712117_168383805_lowres.jpg\" alt=\"Keldric Faulk\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Zierlein adds that Auburn DE Keldric Faulk could be a target for Houston if they do trade up.<\/p>\n<p>The Texans extended both DE Will Anderson, Jr. and DE Danielle Hunter to massive extensions this off-season. However, the team lacks defensive end depth and Hunter will turn 32 next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Faulk could be a long-term running mate on the perimeter for Anderson and could slowly work his way into a three-headed rotation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He can also move inside on passing downs, something Houston doesn\u2019t have a lot of on the interior of their defense at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Faulk, 21, was a four-star recruit and the 10th-ranked defensive lineman in the 2023 recruiting class. He committed to Auburn and remained there for three years, earning Third Team All-SEC honors in 2025 and SEC All-Freshman in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/interactive\/the-beast-2026\/player\/keldric-faulk-auburn-edge-rusher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Brugler of The Athletic<\/a> has Faulk as the fourth-best edge rusher in the class with a first- to second-round grade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During his three-year college career, Faulk appeared in 37 games and recorded 109 tackles, 19.5 tackles for loss, 10 sacks, six pass defenses, two fumble recoveries, and one forced fumble.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more ahead of the draft, check out our<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6BNLW-2JPm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 2026 NFL Draft Visit Tracker.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking for the latest NFL Insider News &amp; Rumors?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be sure to follow <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/nfltraderumors.co\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL Trade Rumors<\/a> on <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nfltrade_rumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.com<\/a>\u00a0and <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nfltraderumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0for breaking NFL News and Rumors for all 32 teams!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Lance Zierlein, the Houston Texans have been quietly looking to trade up in the first round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[7,221,253,2368,5386,6,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-872318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-texans","11":"tag-houstontexans","12":"tag-keldric-faulk","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116451367979198106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872318","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=872318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}