Mercilus inks Texans deal
HOUSTON — The Texans signed first-round pick Whitney Mercilus to a four-year deal Thursday.
Mercilus was the 26th overall pick in this year's draft out of Illinois.
"It's great to get it off my mind and just concentrate straight on football and everything," he said. "Just more concentrating instead of having a monkey on my back, no doubt and just getting in front of the fans."
The 6-foot-4, 254-pound player was a defensive end in a 4-3 scheme at Illinois but has moved to outside linebacker in the 3-4 alignment the Texans use. He's happy with the progress he made in the practices leading up to this week's minicamp, which wrapped up Thursday.
"I've grown up a lot, pretty fast, too," Mercilus said. "They shot it straight at us really fast, a hundred miles per hour, and it's a lot of information to take in. But it was our time for these three days of the minicamp to actually grow up and graduate and basically go out here and execute what they call."
The Texans did not release financial terms of the deal.
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