AJ's last year may be his new norm. Play half the regular season games and hope for a healthy playoffs. The Texans need to draft their future WR1, who will play WR2 when AJ is healthy. The rest of the Texans's draft should be dominated by replacing their lost FAs: Williams, Brisiel, Winston, Dreessen and Ryans. I guessing that by position the Texans draft will look like ... 1 WR 2 OT 3 OG 4a ILB 4b OLB 5 TE
Can we please not start this nonsense? He, like a lot of other players last year, blew out a hamstring. There's no reason to assume that was "normal." He should be fine.
Also, WR is one of the few positions you can play effectively long into your career, especially when being a speed demon isn't the backbone of your game. Andre creates massive separation with great route running. He has plenty of good years left in him.
In Denver . . . I don't recall them thinking highly of skilled positions [i.e. running backs and WR] So this could happen. They seem to have good people in those positions but it seemed the philosophy was your o-line and qb could make anyone good. So I would not be surprised if that is Kube's ideal Rocket River
AJ missed 9 games in 2011 and 3 games in 2010. I hope that he plays all 16 games next year, but would not be surprised if he does not.
If Kubiak did not value AJ as highly as the rest of the league, Kubiak would have traded AJ (aka sell high) years ago, right? Instead, Kubiak sees that AJ get thrown to a lot. 100+ receptions for years that AJ is healthy.
