Never a good time to have one of your, very few, star players injured but if it was going to happen better this year than others. As far as trading Tunsil I'm very torn on it. On one hand I very much like the idea of having our QBs, whomever it might be, blind side protected but then I look at some of the numbers and up coming changes and it makes less sense.
So first we all know that Taylor and Mills is not a long term answer, Mills might get there but at the end of the day he is a 3rd round QB pick so realistically the best you can hope for is a solid backup and/or game manager and anything beyond that is gravy. If I knew we were drafting QB in 22 I would absolutely say keep Tunsil but looking at the class of 22 I haven't seen or heard of any that are really impressing. I'll be the first to say that I don't keep up with college but I haven't heard of any Luck's or Rodgers or even Mahomes or Watsons. There will of course be some QBs taken in the first round, there always are, but I haven't heard of any that truly deserve to be in the first round. So there is a chance we don't draft a QB till 23 at the earliest.
Now even if we do draft a QB in 22 Tunsil's contract is up after the 23 season so you get at best 2 years with him and the new QB and looking again at this draft class I don't see any of these QBs that could carry a team the whole way in their first two years. So yeah figure 2 years, at least, to get your new QB in shape and then Tunsil's contract is up. Now he's already the highest paid LT in NFL history so what do you double down on that? That's a lot to invest in one player that isn't the QB. If we wait till 23 to draft a QB then the numbers get even worse.
So much as I hate to say it, and believe me I do, the best scenario for long term success for the Texans is to go ahead and look at trading him for a team making a serious run thats needs their franchise QB protected and then draft a LT with your first draft pick and worry about a QB later, unless someone just comes out of left field like Mahomes did.