New favorite emerges for Texans at #12 | Mock Draft Roundup, 5.0

Drew Dougherty

There's a new favorite for the Texans at 12 overall.

A new crop of mock drafts were recently released, and nearly a third of them predicted the Texans would use the 12th overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft on Ohio State's Jaxon Smith-Njigba.

The wide receiver was tabbed to Houston in 14 of 47 (29.8%) mock drafts. Last season he appeared in just three games because of injury, but in 2021