Houston Texans OC Gets Real on Offensive Line Concerns in OTAs

The Houston Texans' offseason had its fair share of changes across the board, but among the biggest moves from this team in recent months have centered around recalibrating this offensive line from a year ago.

C.J. Stroud finished his second season as the league's second-most sacked quarterback in the league. The Texans know keeping that trend up is far from a recipe for success. So, instead of remaining complacent, Houston made a vast array of moves upfront: signing veterans, drafting a second-round rookie in Aireontae Ersery, and moving out numerous previous pieces from last year.

Nothing short of a busy past few months for Nick Caserio and Houston's front office when it comes to the offensive trenches. But, after the dust has settled and now entering into this summer's OTAs, so much offseason movement, one big question remains for the Texans: Who will be the ones making up this starting offensive line?

It's something Texans first-year offensive coordinator Nick Caley was asked about during the start of the team's OTAs this past week. The simple answer? No one quite knows this early in the season.

"I think it's like anything else. I don't think anything's going to be solved here in the next two weeks," Caley said. "There's things in this time of the year with not having pads on, we can't hit gap double teams. We're not going to come off the ball and capture zone combinations as much. When you get into training camp, a lot of those things come to life, which carries over into the play action game, your play passes on early downs... It's a little bit more of a controlled environment, but we're certainly going to build off of everything we do, and continue to build up until the time we report back here [for camp]."