Hmmm...What round was Domanick Davis drafted in? I seem to recall that he was pretty good for the Texans until his knees quit on him.
4th round.
The Texans' Historical RB Draft Picks (excluding FBs):
2002 - 4th Round - Jonathan Wells (374/1167)
2003 - 4th Round - Domanick Davis (770/3195)
2005 - 3rd Round - Vernand Morency (171/726)
2006 - 6th Round - Wali Lundy (124/476)
2008 - 3rd Round - Steve Slaton (442/1896)
2010 - 2nd Round - Ben Tate (540/2363)
2014 - 6th Round - Alfred Blue (673/2407)
2015 - 7th Round - Kenny Hilliard (0/0)
2016 - 4th Round - Tyler Ervin (19/92)
2017 - 3rd Round - D'Onta Foreman (240/987)
2022 - 4th Round - Dameon Pierce
I'm just saying, we've had coaches who supposedly were all about the running game and building through the draft, but they never really drafted like it. They've always taken this "RBs are a dime a dozen and I can get them in the later rounds" approach, but then haven't even really tried to get them in the later rounds. To me, this just seems like a poor drafting strategy. If you're going to go with that later round approach, then you need to take more chances.
Sure, we hit with a UDFA, but then since we had Foster, we never really drafted anyone to be that solid backup. I know, we drafted Ben Tate when we weren't sure what we had with Foster, but they still should have been drafting more late round RBs.
And when we didn't have an obvious homerun hitter or bell-cow RB, we should have been drafting them higher.
IMO.