Solomon Byrd
Houston TexansPos EDGE
Updated August 24, 2026
Draft & College
Round 7, pick 238 · Houston Texans · 2024
USC (Pac-12)
Taken
#238
where he actually went
Consensus board
270th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#657
among EDGE in our college data
He went about where consensus had him.
In college · 2019-2023 · 49 games
18.5 sacks, 28 TFL, 26 pressures, 153 tackles
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
What this pick usually becomes
Of the 549 players taken as a late Day 3 pick between 2012 and 2021, 15% earned a second contract and 9% became starters. The median one started 0 career games.