Texan's offense at a glance

Since 2003, a year after the franchise debuted in the National Football League, the Houston Texans have relied on one contributor to carry its passing game: Andre Johnson. Over the last ten seasons Johnson has been the work horse of this team, making David Carr and Matt Schaub into better quarterbacks through his sheer skill and consistent play.

If not for Arian Foster and our once monstrous offensive line that is attempting to return to its former greatness, our offense would be abysmally mediocre. Over the past half decade or so the Texans (in the passing game) have worked through Johnson, former Texan Kevin Walter, and our above average tight end Owen Daniels.

Andre Johnson is one of the best receivers in the league, and has been for nearly a decade.

However, the seasoned veteran is past his prime; it pains me to admit it but Andre cannot carry this team any longer, and thankfully he will not have to.

Enter DeAndre Hopkins and the newly revamped receiving corps of the Houston Texans.

As was demonstrated in limited action Friday night, Schaub will have a few more targets this season, as a few young players have begun to emerge as playmakers.

In case you missed it, DeAndre looks to be as good, if not better, than what we have heard from the Texans coaches during camp. 

Martin (a fourth round pick) played decently throughout his rookie year (mainly returning punts) in tangent with the Texans 2012 third round pick Devier Posey who is out with a ruptured Achilles tendon. Last season neither surpassed 100 yards, but, they have grown as players and will continue to develop.

Expect big things from Martin and Jean, especially Jean who somehow gets overlooked when discussing the Texans offensive weapons.

This season, the Texans need to focus on expanding their air attack and spreading out defenses in an effort to open up gaps for Foster and Ben Tate, who is in a contract year.

Two seasons ago Tate almost ran for a thousand yards, while he missed a large part of the 2011-2012 campaign with an injury.

However both he and Foster have stated he is talented enough to start in the NFL. The easiest way to pimp himself out this season and make a foolish NFL franchise spend an abhorrent amount of money on him would be to match, if not surpass his numbers from 2010.  Jerry Jones, get your popcorn ready.

All will be for nothing if the man tossing the pigskin does not perform.

As goofy as Matt Schaub is, and although he will not dazzle with his supposed 5.04 (highly debatable) 40 time, he is a good quarterback prone to few errors and, when given the opportunity, can put up exceptional numbers.  

If Schaub isn’t on point this season with his copious amount of skilled receivers, I heard a young man who attended college in the 713 and somehow went undrafted is ready to take the starting job.

Kidding, obviously. Case won't be starting until at the earliest 2015: bank on it. 

Thanks for the read, next piece: Brian Cushing.