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Texans sign Morency and Mathis
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HOUSTON - The Houston Texans announced today the signings of third-round draft pick RB Vernand Morency and fourth-round selection WR Jerome Mathis. Morency and Mathis are the fourth and fifth 2005 Texans draft picks to sign with the team.
Morency (5-9, 212) was taken by the Texans with the 73 rd overall pick in the 2005 draft from Oklahoma State University . The Texans acquired the pick from the Dallas Cowboys by trading former sixth-round pick QB Drew Henson (March 19, 2004). Morency was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 1998 Major League Baseball draft, and didnt begin his college football career until 2002. He is coming off a breakout season at Oklahoma State in which he rushed for 1,474 yards on 278 carries, scoring 12 touchdowns. His 2,661 career yards rank eighth on the schools all-time career list.
Mathis (5-11, 181) was taken by the Texans with the 114 th overall pick out of Hampton University . Mathis, who registered the fastest recorded 40-yard-dash time in the entire 2005 Rookie Scouting Combine (4.26), accounted for 4,541 all-purpose yards in his college career, appearing in only 35 games an average of 129.7 yards per contest. His 21 total touchdowns rank second most in school history and his 26.4 yards per catch stands as the all-time NCAA Division I-AA record. Mathis was also the 2003 and 2004 NCAA East Regional Champion in the 200 meters.
Morency and Mathis, join fifth-round pick C Drew Hodgdon, sixth-round pick SS C.C. Brown, and seventh-round pick LB Kenneth Pettway as members of the 2005 draft to have signed with the team.