Vince Young: If I'd known the Texans wouldn't draft me No. 1, I would have stayed at Texas

After winning the national championship for the Texas Longhorns in 2006, many experts expected quarterback Vince Young to be the No. 1 overall pick in the draft. After all, the Houston Texans owned the top pick, needed a quarterback and Young was a local boy, having grown up in Houston.

Instead the Texans selected defensive end Mario Williams first overall and found their quarterback the next year by trading for Matt Schaub from the Atlanta Falcons. Young ended up being drafted third by the Tennessee Titans, but had he known that would be the case, things might have gone quite differently.

Speaking with Alex Loeb of 104.9 FM The Horn on Wednesday night, Young confessed that had he known he was not going to be picked by the Texans, he would have stayed in school.

It was very close, the Texans had the No. 1 pick and that was a place I wanted to play in. I wish they would have told me they wasn't picking me because I would have stayed my senior year. But it didn't happen like that so I had the opportunity to play for a long, long...being a kid, watching the Oilers all my life and having the opportunity to play for them it was a dream come true as well.

Young's career in Tennessee may have started as a dream, but by the end it was more like a nightmare. After winning offensive rookie of the year honors, Young clashed with head coach Jeff Fisher and would lose his starting job following an injury. He was released by the Titans after the 2010 season.

One year as a backup with the Philadelphia Eagles would be the remainder of Young's NFL experience, as he was never able to stay on another team's roster.