The national media is starting to discover what Houston Texans fans have known for five years: Right tackle Eric Winston is a Pro Bowl-quality player.

Winston (www.ericwinston.com), who has started every game since the 10th of his rookie year in 2006, was named All-Pro through the first quarter of the 2010 season by Pro Football Focus. See the complete team at http://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2010/10/08/the-pff-all-pros-first-quarter-edition/.

Winston, a third-round draft pick out of Miami (Fla.) in 2006, started the final seven games of his rookie season that year and has started every game since, going 16-for-16 the last three seasons and starting the first five games this season to extend his streak to 60 straight.

The 6-7, 310-pound lineman will start his 61st straight game when the Texans play host to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.

Houston Texans right tackle Eric Winston will host the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday, April 22, starting at 7 p.m. on 610 AM Houston.

Winston, a third-round draft pick out of Miami (Fla.) in 2006, started the final seven games of his rookie season that year and has started every game since, going 16-for-16 the last three seasons.

The 6-7, 310-pound lineman will start his 56th straight game when the Texans open the 2010 season.

It has been four years since Eric Winston did not start a game at right tackle for the Houston Texans.

Winston, a third-round draft pick out of Miami (Fla.) in 2006, started the final seven games of his rookie season that year and has started every game since, going 16-for-16 the last three seasons.

The 6-7, 310-pound lineman will start his 56th straight game when the Texans open the 2010 season.

The Texans finished with the best record in franchise history last season at 9-7 but missed out on the playoffs based on tiebreakers.

Houston Texans right tackle Eric Winston heads into the season with a streak of 39 straight games started and isn’t ready to slow down now.

The 6-7, 310-pound resident of the Bellaire section of Houston, Texas, was drafted in the third round by the Texans in 2006 and played in 12 games as a rookie, starting the final seven. In 2007 he was one of three Texans linemen to start all 16 games and continued that trend last season by starting every game as Houston rallied to win its last five and finish 8-8.

When he takes the field for the Texans’ opener on Sept. 13 at Reliant Stadium against the New York Jets, it will be the 40th straight game started for Winston, who was selected after 12 other offensive linemen, some of whom are no longer in the NFL, in the 2006 draft.

“That day really put a chip on my shoulder,” Winston says. “I made a promise to myself that I was going to out-last every one of those guys picked ahead of me. I definitely keep an eye on what’s going on with those guys and with the teams that could have picked me but chose another lineman instead.”