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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; J.J. Watt wants to be a dual threat. His head coach isn't so sure. (Bob Levey/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It\u2019s a little-known fact that before current NFL Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt transferred to the University of Wisconsin in time for the 2008 season, he played for Central Michigan as a tight end, and caught eight passes for 77 yards. Watt made his bones in college as a dynamic defensive lineman, and that certainly bore fruit in 2012, when he put up what may have been the most statistically impressive season by any defensive lineman in NFL history.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Still, Watt can\u2019t forget what it feels like to catch passes, and he\u2019s been bugging Houston Texans head coach Gary Kubiak about it. The recipient of one incomplete pass from Peyton Manning in the most recent Pro Bowl (see the breakdown below) has been working out on the JUGS machine, and he\u2019s convinced that he could wreak just as much havoc on enemy defenses as he does when he\u2019s dealing with opposing quarterbacks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CIt\u2019s just about being an athlete,\u201D Watt said on Tuesday about those receiver reps. \u201CI have fun, catching balls is fun, just doing whatever you can to be an athlete, working on hand-eye coordination, and the little things. It never hurts to be able to catch a football.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, though, this is a step forward in Watt\u2019s campaign to get in on the other side of the ball, right?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI\u2019ve been lobbying since Day 1,\" Watt said. \"It hasn\u2019t worked yet, so I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to work anytime soon, but it\u2019s his team \u2026 We always joke about it. It\u2019s never anything really serious. Who knows? Maybe one day.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; J.J. Watt should avoid Charles Tillman in situations like this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kubiak did talk about a hypothetical \u201CWisconsin\u201D package in which Watt and tight ends Garrett Graham and Owen Daniels (all Wisconsin alums, of course) could hit the field in a goal-line package, but \u201CI don\u2019t know what part of the Wisconsin package he would play,\u201D the coach remarked about Watt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually, the Texans have &lt;em&gt;three&lt;/em&gt; tight ends from Wisconsin -- Jake Byrne is the other one on the current roster -- so Kubiak could go hog-wild with this if he so chose.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the end, Kubiak threw cold water on the Watt idea, especially after seeing him line up wide in the Pro Bowl -- \u201CNo, I didn\u2019t like that personally. When I saw he was going to line up out there, that scared me a little bit. We\u2019ll let him keep getting after the quarterback and maybe we\u2019ll find him a play or two of offense down the road.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That\u2019s probably for the best, job-security-wise. One can only imagine the calls for Kubiak\u2019s head if Watt were injured while getting jacked up by a linebacker on a red zone drag route.\nStill, it\u2019s an intriguing idea, and Kubiak admitted that when it comes to Watt\u2019s allegedly good hands, \u201CHe probably can do anything he wants to do.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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