To understand Will Anderson Jr.'s fit with the Texans, start with fish, familiy and loyalty
The Texans had to reserve multiple rows in their team auditorium to account for Anderson’s family when he was formally introduced the day after the franchise traded up from No. 12 to select him. One seat was missing. Betty died during Anderson’s freshman year at Alabama, a season, like his arrival in Houston, that Little Will viewed through her memory.
DeMeco Ryans certainly needed to upgrade a Texans defense that pressured quarterbacks at the league’s 13th-lowest rate last season. He’d constructed a top-rated 49ers defense with All-Pro edge rusher Nick Bosa careening into opposing backfields, and Ryans made improving the defensive front a top priority when the Texans named him their fourth head coach in four seasons.
Mack, an outside linebacker at Buffalo, was drafted No. 5 overall by the Raiders in 2014, and he made the same positional transition when former coach Jack Del Rio was hired in 2015. Jethro Franklin, Mack’s position coach, said they tried “not to make it overly complicated.” It wasn’t simple by any means. But they began with a small scope of tedious techniques that, once mastered, led into understanding the whole.
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