Tom Brady on Deshaun Watson: 'He has a great future'

Tom Brady didn't beat around the bush when asked about what he thinks of Texans rookie Deshaun Watson's future as an NFL quarterback.

"He's had such a great college career and got picked by a great team," he told reporters after the Patriots-Texans joint team practice Wednesday. "So watching him play, he has a great future. He has all the ability and it was great to meet him."

While Brady and Watson didn't exactly have similar college football experiences, their early NFL careers could be very similar. Or, at least, the situations both players came into are very similar.

The Patriots had a very good defense and a solid running back in Antowain Smith when Brady first started working with Bill Belichick. As for Watson, the Texans had one of the best defenses in the NFL in 2016 and they have a good running back in Lamar Miller coming back under Bill O'Brien, who coincidentally is a Belichick disciple.

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Watson has been put in a position to succeed, and practicing opposite Tom Brady Wednesday and seeing him play on the same field can only help his development.

"It's always good to be able to learn and watch a guy like Tom Brady, one of the best to ever do it — see him in live practice and how he works," Watson said, via ESPN . "What we talked about, we kind of congratulated each other on all the success we've had and he had a little tip here and there on this league, this system and Coach [Bill O'Brien]. It was a good talk."