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Steve Slaton is a Texan!!

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Dance Lindsay!
Pick No. 89, Round 3.

We have a "sexy" pick, yay!!!

Better yet, we have a young RB with potential. Now we just have to wait and see.

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Speed, speed, & more speed. I like the pick, let's see what happens. This is our payoff for moving down.
 
NICE!

I think if he can bulk up a little bit he could turn into a very productive back for us. He's got alot of ability.
 
nice.
there were a few guys id rather have... adibi, king, cliff avril, marcus harrison, dre moore
as far as RB go i thought slaton and choice were about even. i guess the coaching staff knows who fits our style best.
lets hope one of the 5 guys i mentioned are there in the 4th
 
Strengths:
Excellent speed and quickness with a burst...Great agility, balance and change of direction...Can get outside and turn the corner...Nice vision and instincts...Elusive and very dangerous in the open field..Has very good hands and can be a weapon out of the backfield...A big play threat...Offers value as a return man....Productive.

Weaknesses:
Doesn't have the size or bulk that you look for...Lacks strength and power...Does not break a lot of tackles...Not much of an inside runner...Marginal blocker...Is not real physical...Very little return experience...Played in a spread offense...May have some minor durability concerns...He might be limited to a situation role in the NFL.

Notes:
Is also being looked at as a wide receiver prospect by some..Shared the spotlight with Pat White and was beginning to lose carries to true freshman Noel Devine in 2007...Didn't have a great junior campaign and saw his stock drop...Will never be a pro workhorse but could carve a niche for himself and excel as a 3rd down back.

wtf!

With that said, he seems like a big play-maker. I don't know what else to said.
 
So is he 100% now? And if we use him as a scat back, who will be our every down? (lol, maybe the answer is whoever can stay healthy the longest?)
 
I love this pick. I think a steal as well. Now we got him to work on as a project. Duane Brown should help make holes for this guy .
 
This is the pick that we recieved from the Ravens as part of the trade down right?


I love this pick!
 
I think we'll use him in a role similar to Reggie Bush, but at fair market value :)

We've finally got a RB that is a homerun threat. Texans fans rejoice our offense just got a little more dangerous!!!
 
I'm interested to see what Smith and Kubiak think about Slaton. Obviously they like him since they drafted him, but I want to know if they potentially see him being an every down back in the future. Either way, the guy is a home run hitter as it is right now and should be a great fit! Welcome Steve Slaton!
 
TexanSam said:
I'm interested to see what Smith and Kubiak think about Slaton. Obviously they like him since they drafted him, but I want to know if they potentially see him being an every down back in the future. Either way, the guy is a home run hitter as it is right now and should be a great fit! Welcome Steve Slaton!
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He compares most to Clinton Portis. Portis was "too small to carry the load" too
 
I haven't posted much on the draft but I've been watching just the same and I gotta say I'm coming around to trusting the FO. I was shown the light when you-know-who left and I'll give the props when I see them.

Nice jobs so far. (I'm a baseball guy getting giddy about the Texans in April!)
 
We could use him like a Wes Welker in my mind!! With breakaway speed running rails in AJ and JJ, we could dump it to him out of the backfield or have him run a comeback route out of the slot.... This makes me poke holes in my ceiling too!!
 
lol, according to the Texans website, he'll not only be a RB, he'll also be our offensive coordinator! What a deal...

Apr 27, 2008 - Tune in right now for live streaming video of defensive coordinator Richard Smith's and offensive coordinator Steve Slaton's press conference to discuss the team's third-round selections.
 
kastofsna said:
the difference is that Portis actually did carry the load in a pro-style offense at Miami.
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The most amount of carries Portis had at Miami was 220. Steve Slaton had 205 as a freshman, 248 as a sophomore and 211 as a junior. Not a huge difference
 
TEXANS84 said:
LOL, Shanahan just called Reggie Bush a 3rd down back in the press conference.
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Yeah, it was a great back-handed compliment, "Reggie Bush was the highest of the third down back type guys I've seen drafted".. or something like that... then he says, "usually those guys start going in the third round".
 
Love the pick. He was one of about a half dozen guys that I was hoping to see at that pick. Mike Hart was high on my list too at RB.

I see him as a poor man's Reggie Bush. I doubt he is ever a 3 down back, but you will see him a LOT on 3rd downs. They need to get him out in space, split him wide and use him as an extra WR, and he can figure in the return game as well. He adds speed, quickness and home run ability at RB.

A- pick.

I wonder who the odd man out is?
 
Porky said:
Love the pick. He was one of about a half dozen guys that I was hoping to see at that pick. Mike Hart was high on my list too at RB.

I see him as a poor man's Reggie Bush. I doubt he is ever a 3 down back, but you will see him a LOT on 3rd downs. They need to get him out in space, split him wide and use him as an extra WR, and he can figure in the return game as well. He adds speed, quickness and home run ability at RB.

A- pick.

I wonder who the odd man out is?
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Sadly I think its Darius Walker. Slaton does everything Walker does but has speed.
 
Porky said:
Love the pick. He was one of about a half dozen guys that I was hoping to see at that pick. Mike Hart was high on my list too at RB.

I see him as a poor man's Reggie Bush. I doubt he is ever a 3 down back, but you will see him a LOT on 3rd downs. They need to get him out in space, split him wide and use him as an extra WR, and he can figure in the return game as well. He adds speed, quickness and home run ability at RB.

A- pick.

I wonder who the odd man out is?
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Lets hope he isn't anything like Reggie Bush.
 
We need to beef him up some. Right now he's 197, I hope we can get him to 215, but still keeping his 4.4 speed.
 
Porky said:
Love the pick. He was one of about a half dozen guys that I was hoping to see at that pick. Mike Hart was high on my list too at RB.

I see him as a poor man's Reggie Bush. I doubt he is ever a 3 down back, but you will see him a LOT on 3rd downs. They need to get him out in space, split him wide and use him as an extra WR, and he can figure in the return game as well. He adds speed, quickness and home run ability at RB.

A- pick.

I wonder who the odd man out is?
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Walker -Anderson or both. with any luck he shreads his knee steping to the podium for his photo op.
 
The1ApplePie said:
Owen Schmitt in the 5th?

Great pair in college with Slaton and gives the Texans an athletic and very angry FB
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I think your idea would work wonders: Two guys who know each other well.

I sorta' flirted with this idea when I read the ESPNmagazine article. It seems Schmitt and Slaton do well as a pair.

That would be awesome, and it would help add depth in case Leach gets hurt.
 
TexansLucky13 said:
Lets hope he isn't anything like Reggie Bush.
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Sorry to disapoint you then. That's exactly the type of player he is. A speed guy who can get the edge, can catch and make big plays out of the backfield, a multi-talented versatile speed back. If you could have drafted Reggie Bush in the bottom half of rd 3, that's a complete steal. I have NO idea why anyone wouldn't be excited by the prospects of the speed dimension this guy can add to our offense. I'm pumped.
 
To me, Slaton projects to a poor man's Reggie Bush. Same type of player, but slower, less agile, & worse hands.

I hope I'm wrong about that analysis.

In any case, at least we got an exciting offensive player who can come in & change the pace of the game for us.
 
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