{"id":389620,"date":"2022-05-24T03:06:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T03:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=389620"},"modified":"2022-05-24T03:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T03:06:37","slug":"davis-mills-deserves-a-fair-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/davis-mills-deserves-a-fair-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Mills deserves a fair shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yebscore.com\/nfl\/player-details\/22505\/D.Mills\">Davis Mills<\/a> is probably one of the most underrated stories of the entire 2021 season. A much-criticized pick by that year&#8217;s draft, Mills was trusted into the starting job by a series of factors, including <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nfl\/player-details\/18857\/D.Watson\">Deshaun Watson<\/a>&#8216;s stance against the team by asking to be traded (and, obviously, the fact that he had 22 sexual harassment accusations going against him) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/tyrod-taylor\/\">Tyrod Taylor<\/a> getting hurt early in the season after a great start.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2><strong>It was going to be impossible for any quarterback to make a playoff push with that horrendous Texans team &#8211; just remember how Deshaun Watson was one of the NFL&#8217;s best quarterbacks in the 2020 season, yet Houston finished 4-12. But Mills deputized admirably and earned some praise for his development and how he navigated through a year with virtually no chance of success, with head coach David Culley fired after just a year.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Considering what Davis Mills accomplished last year as a rookie &#8211; in the definition of a tough situation mind you &#8211; idk how you put him at 35.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom third among starters, fine\u2026but 35? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SMz5URMUhi\">https:\/\/t.co\/SMz5URMUhi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brett Kollmann (@BrettKollmann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrettKollmann\/status\/1527471471286554624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Texans&#8217; don&#8217;t really have an answer for a franchise quarterback. After trading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/deshaun-watson\/\">Deshaun Watson<\/a>, they were able to add a good amount of talent to the roster with two first-round picks &#8211; and there&#8217;s still a long haul to come over the next two years. But Mills is becoming a more exciting option by the day. He did very well for a rookie last season, and with some improved protection and more talent on the roster, it&#8217;s going to be interesting to see what he can do with more reps and more practice time with the first team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rookie QBs with the most completions on 20+ yard throws last season<\/p>\n<p>1\ufe0f\u20e3 Mac Jones: 24<br \/>2\ufe0f\u20e3 Davis Mills: 20<br \/>3\ufe0f\u20e3 Trevor Lawrence: 19 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YYKH5lKLGm\">pic.twitter.com\/YYKH5lKLGm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PFF NE Patriots (@PFF_Patriots) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PFF_Patriots\/status\/1527363464217276426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, any ideas of trade for Jimmy Garoppolo are unnecessary because they&#8217;d pay a lot for a quarterback who doesn&#8217;t really improve any chances of the Texans getting into the Super Bowl sooner. To be fair, neither does Mills right now, but they don&#8217;t have to pay anything for him to start in 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the Phillip Dorsett Q&amp;A, Dorsett told me that Davis Mills reminds him of Andrew Luck and is a natural leader that improved every week. \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Make or break year for Mills in 2022. Going to be very interesting to see how things play out.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Schwager (@NickSchwagerNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickSchwagerNFL\/status\/1526286718395207680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Houston has a free shot at a franchise quarterback. If Mills struggles in 2022, the worst thing that might happen is that they&#8217;re going to be in a good position to pick one of the best quarterback prospects of the 2023 NFL Draft. Mills deserves at least a fair shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davis Mills is probably one of the most underrated stories of the entire 2021 season. A much-criticized pick by that year&#8217;s draft, Mills was trusted into the starting job by a series of factors, including Deshaun Watson&#8216;s stance against the team by asking to be traded (and, obviously, the fact that he had 22 sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":389627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-houston-texans","category-nfl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}