Who, in Sean Pendergast's opinion, meets the bar for a Texans' Ring of Honor?
The Houston Texans are the youngest team in the NFL. When I say that, I am not talking about the average age of the players on the roster , I am talking about the actual age of the business. The Texans have been playing American football since 2002, and as such, they are beginning to experience certain evolutionary occurrences for the first time.
Like a teenager getting his or her driver's license, or a 21 year old drinking his or her first LEGAL beer, the Texans, two decades in, finally have some retired players worth honoring and touting in some tangible way. And so it was that the Houston Texans' Ring of Honor was created in 2017, with future Pro Football Hall of Fame Andre Johnson as its first inductee.
Since then, the only other inductee has been the founder of the organization, the late Bob McNair. Both Johnson and McNair are more than worthy of this honor, on many levels — on the field , as people, in the community, the whole nine yards. So as the Texans continue to age, there will be more and more retired players whose Ring of Honor candidacy will be up for debate.