QB Justin Fields may be the best scheme fit for the Texans
No Houston sports fan wants to see Deshaun Watson leave the Texans.
However, the reality is the Texans may need to let Watson go. In the ensuing haul of draft picks, Houston would be able to take one of the top quarterbacks in the 2021 NFL draft.
The problem for Houston is they retained Tim Kelly as offensive coordinator. The former Bill O’Brien assistant was retained as part of a ploy to pacify Watson and keep him around. What could happen is Kelly stays while Watson goes.
What then should the Texans do at quarterback?
According to Seth Galina from Pro Football Focus, the best quarterback for the Texans’ scheme is former Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields. Albeit in Galina’s piece, he says Fields is the best scheme fit for O’Brien’s 2017-19 offense, but Kelly was the offensive coordinator for 2019 and also ran meetings in 2018.
[Fields] has everything you want from a quarterback: the ability to go through reads on any concept, elite speed and devastating accuracy.
Somehow he’s fallen on mock draft boards and rankings, and if he does fall in the draft, he will be a tremendously valuable pickup to whoever drafts him. Fields’ “problem” might be that he tries too hard to play the quarterback position and might make life a bit harder on himself by trying to read every concept out all the time. That’s a fake problem, anyway.
He gets dinged because he takes time to throw the ball, but that can be attributed to Ohio State’s offensive scheme, which allows its receivers to make decisions on routes that most teams will lock.
Unless new coach David Culley is going to install some sort of offensive chimera that grafts his system onto Kelly’s, Fields would be the best pick to plug and play in the Texans’ system they intended for Watson.
