The Houston Texans are having training camp back at their world headquarters in Harris County after spending the past two seasons in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
What comes with moving training camp back to Houston is the heat, but the Texans aren’t going to be caught off guard by the dog days of summer.
“We put a lot of thought into that,” coach Bill O’Brien said. “I think that we try to do the best we can to, each and every year, treat it a little differently.”
At the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, the team was able to comfortable have morning walk-throughs. However, even after six years of coaching the Texans, O’Brien knows that won’t be a possibility with training camp back in Houston.
“Obviously at nine o’clock in the morning in August it’s already 100 degrees,” said O’Brien. “So, we brought in this cool room, basically a mobile cool room that we think can help.
The Texans debuted a mobile cooling room during their offseason program that allowed players to cool down before making the trek over the Kirby Drive walkway from Methodist Training Center back to NRG Stadium. The Texans will have to figure out how properly utilize the cooling unit as it can fit nearly 35 players. When training camp kicks off, Houston will have 90 men on their roster.
Said O’Brien: “We’ll have to figure out how we want to give guys breaks and things like that during camp.”
The club could also look to practice more inside the bubble at Methodist Training Center now that it has been outfitted with new artificial turf.
“We’re figuring all that out right now before we head out of here,” O’Brien said.
