NFL analyst makes strong case for Texans having NFL's best WR trio
BEST OF THE BEST
09 April 2024
The Texans are loaded at receiver. Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images.
When the Houston Texans traded for Stefon Diggs, the deal was viewed nationally as mostly positive from the Texans perspective. Emmanuel Acho is one of the view analysts that didn't like the trade for the Texans. He thinks that Diggs' skills are “diminishing” and that's why Buffalo agreed to trade him.
CBS Sports' Garrett Podell however, is singing a completely different tune. He believes the addition of Diggs gives the Texans the best WR trio in the NFL.
He even uses a post from Trevon Diggs, Stefon's brother, to back up his claim:
Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowl cornerback Trevon Diggs said it best when news broke that his older brother Stefon, a four-time Pro Bowl selection and 2020 first-team All-Pro, was being traded to the Houston: The Texans have three players who could be the top receiver on their own teams.
3 #1’s is crazy 😒..
— TRE SEVEN (@TrevonDiggs) April 3, 2024
Which got us thinking, is he right? Podell's list on CBS Sports has the Texans at No.1, followed by the Dolphins, Bengals, 49ers, and Eagles, respectively.
Be sure to check out the video above as ESPN Houston's Joe George and Paul Gallant debate the rankings and explain how Tank Dell is the player that cements the Texans at No. 1.
José Ramírez homered for a third straight game, Angel Martínez also went deep and the Cleveland Guardians got a 4-2 win over the Houston Astros on Wednesday night to complete a three-game sweep.
It’s the first time the Guardians, who entered the series on a 10-game skid, have won three in a row since a four-game winning streak from May 21-24.
Slade Cecconi (4-4) allowed five hits and two runs with a career-best nine strikeouts in 7-plus innings for the win. Paul Sewald pitched a scoreless ninth for his second save.
Martínez homered for a second straight at-bat with his shot to the Crawford Boxes with one out in the first inning. His grand slam with two outs in the 10th inning Tuesday night lifted Cleveland to a 10-6 win.
Four pitches after Martinez’s homer Wednesday, Ramírez also connected off Brandon Walter (1-2) to make it 2-0. Walter settled in after that, retiring the next 17 batters, with seven strikeouts before Bennett Sousa took over to start the seventh.
Ramírez and Carlos Santana hit consecutive singles with no outs in the inning before David Fry walked to load the bases. Johnathan Rodríguez then singled to score two and extend the lead to 4-0.
The Astros had managed just four singles when Taylor Trammell walked with no outs in the eighth and scored on a double by Mauricio Dubón that cut the lead to 4-1. There were two outs in the inning when Jose Altuve’s RBI double made it 4-2.
The AL West-leading Astros went 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position to cap this disappointing series which came after they swept the Dodgers in Los Angeles over the weekend.
Key moment
Martínez and Ramírez had back-to-back homers in the first.
Key stat
Ramírez, who dropped out of next week’s All-Star game Wednesday to rehab a nagging Achilles injury, has four homers and seven RBIs this month.
Up next
LHP Logan Allen (5-7, 4.07 ERA) will start for Cleveland in the opener of a four-game series against the Chicago White Sox Thursday night. The Astros are off Thursday and haven’t announced their rotation for their weekend series against the Rangers.
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