Texans rising star QB grew up as an Atlanta Falcons fan

Atlanta Falcons fans probably did not get the chance to catch a lot of Houston Texans games last year considering they are in the AFC. In reality, not a lot of people watched the Texans in 2021 because they weren’t exactly a great team.

While they might be an unstable team, they have a rising star at the most critical position in league with the likes of Davis Mills, who also happened to grow up as a fan of the Dirty Birds.

Prior to the Houston Texans drafting Davis Mills, he grew up cheering for the Atlanta Falcons

The Atlanta Falcons and Houston Texans do not match up a lot, in fact, in their history, they have only played each other a total of five times with the Texans leading the series 3-2.

Davis Mills, if you are unfamiliar with him, was the Texans’ third-round draft pick in 2021, and interesting enough he was actually the first play Houston selected in that draft despite being the 67th overall pick.

Mills took over for a team that had a lot of drama at the quarterback position, which we will pass right over, and he managed to start 11 games. He was pretty solid and the Texans have high hopes for him going forward.

During the Texans preseason game against the San Francisco 49ers on Amazon Prime, Al Michaels, who is the new play-by-play guy for Amazon, brought up how Davis Mills grew up in Atlanta as a Falcons fan, while his dad was a Detroit Lions fan.

So, sounds like there was not very much to cheer for in their household considering their choices of teams.

Mills was a five-star recruit coming out of high school and chose to attend Stanford which is about as far away from his hometown as he could get. He played well there but didn’t quite live up to expectations.

Now he plays in NRG Stadium and you know at first that brought back some bad memories from years prior considering that is where Super Bowl 51 took place.

Now you might have a new player to cheer for going forward since he likely still cheers on the Falcons, at least until he returns home to play them next season.