Colts fourth-round LB Bryce Boettcher also played baseball at the University of Oregon and was drafted by the Houston Astros in 2024. Boettcher is confident that he could be a Hall of Famer in either sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve thought about it,\u201d Boettcher said, via Joel Erickson of the Indianapolis Star.<\/a> \u201cIn my mind, I think I was going to be a Hall of Famer in baseball. \u2026 The same with football. I think I\u2019m going to be a Hall of Famer in 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n Of the two sports, Boettcher said his heart is with football.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s nice to have options, but football\u2019s my passion,\u201d Boettcher said. \u201cYou can\u2019t hit anyone on the baseball field. The game of football, I loved it more. \u2026 Not to say I don\u2019t love baseball, there\u2019s some really fun aspects about that game as well, but (football\u2019s) been my favorite since I was little.\u201d<\/p>\n Boettche played center field in baseball and sees some similarities between the position and playing linebacker.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIn center field, you\u2019ve got to cover some ground; when you\u2019re in space, you\u2019ve got to have tight feet and cover some ground,\u201d Boettcher said. \u201cNo. 2, in the hole as well, when you see a ballcarrier declare, you\u2019ve got to go full speed, no hesitation. In center field, once you see the ball hit, you\u2019ve got to go full speed, no hesitation or you\u2019re not going to make the play.\u201d<\/p>\n Jaguars undrafted rookie RB J\u2019Mari Taylor has impressed HC Liam Coen throughout his college career after producing like one of the top running backs in the class.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you looked at him against some of the top backs in the draft and their production against the same teams, it was pretty impressive,\u201d Coen said, via The Florida Times-Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n Coming off a rough stretch to end the year, Texans WR Nico Collins<\/a> outlined the different mindset from QB C.J. Stroud<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cDifferent guy, different dude, man on a mission,\u201d Collins said, via Aaron Wilson of KPRC<\/a>. \u201cMan, he\u2019s ready to hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n Houston RB Woody Marks<\/a> said Stroud has been in the building since March and has gotten noticeably stronger. Marks touched on what it means for one of the franchise\u2019s leaders to put in work at the facility throughout the entire offseason.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, he\u2019s been there since March 2, since we started the offseason workout, he\u2019s been grinding,\u201d Marks said. \u201cGot a new look. He kind of told me the end of the season that he was going to cut his hair. I wasn\u2019t believing it. He\u2019s been working.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJust seeing the quarterback, the leader of the team out there working in the offseason, not working somewhere else, putting in work at where he belongs at and that\u2019s in Houston. He\u2019s been doing a tremendous job. He got bigger and stronger. His times when we were running outside, he\u2019s getting faster. I\u2019d say he should be using his legs a lot this year, too.\u201d<\/p>\n Looking for the latest NFL Insider News & Rumors?<\/p>\n Be sure to follow NFL Trade Rumors<\/a> on X.com<\/a>\u00a0and FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0for breaking NFL News and Rumors for all 32 teams!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colts fourth-round LB Bryce Boettcher also played baseball at the University of Oregon and was drafted by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[94152,1028,7,221,253,2368,48575,1642,6,533,222,2931],"class_list":["post-900243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-texans","tag-bryce-boettcher","tag-c-j-stroud","tag-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-houstontexans","tag-jmari-taylor","tag-liam-coen","tag-nfl","tag-nico-collins","tag-texans","tag-woody-marks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116631369376540130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900243","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=900243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}