Bill O’Brien says Texans could look at other quarterbacks besides Manziel, Bortles, Bridgewater

The Houston Texans need a quarterback, and they’ll likely take one in the draft. New head coach Bill O’Brien confirmed as much without committing to taking one in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft. While many consider Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel, Louisville’s Teddy Bridgewater and Central Florida’s Blake Bortles as the favorites, but O’Brien suggested there was lots of depth mentioning Alabama’s A.J. McCarron, LSU’s Zach Mettenberger, Virginia Tech’s Logan Thomas, Pittsburgh’s Tom Savage and Eastern Illinois’s Jimmy Garoppolo.

“There’s not a lot of separation, and there are more quarterbacks than just three. Obviously, the three guys that everybody talks about, Blake, Teddy and Johnny, those guys are good players. Thy had great college careers. But there are other guys out there,” O’Brien told NFL Network, via Pro Football Talk.

“You’ve got McCarron, you’ve got Mettenberger, you’ve got Logan Thomas, you’ve got Savage, you’ve got Garoppolo. I mean, I could go right down the list. To me, you’ve got 10 or 12 guys you’ve got to do a great job of evaluating and make the best pick possible where ever you draft these guys. I see a lot of good quarterbacks.”