Kayden McDonald
Houston TexansPos DT
Updated September 3, 2026
Draft & College
Round 2, pick 36 · Houston Texans · 2026
Ohio State (Big Ten)
Taken
#36
where he actually went
Consensus board
29th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our board
28th
where we had him ranked
Our college model
#87
among IDL in our college data
He went about where consensus had him.
In college · 2024-2025 · 25 games
3.0 sacks, 10 TFL, 6 pressures, 84 tackles
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
Coming out
27 reps
Bench
What this pick usually becomes
Of the 320 players taken as a second-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 63% earned a second contract and 58% became starters. The median one started 44 career games.