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Getty Images Wide receiver Brandin Cooks is no stranger to fresh starts and he’s making another one this year. Cooks was traded for the third time in his career when the Rams dealt him to the Texans for a second-round pick last month, but the prelude to this deal was a bit different than the...

Getty Images The Texans traded DeAndre Hopkins. They traded for Brandin Cooks. Cooks isn’t Hopkins, even as he attempts to replace him. Hopkins has made four Pro Bowls and three times has earned All-Pro. In seven seasons, he has 632 catches for 8,602 yards and 54 touchdowns. In six seasons...

Getty Images The Bears are signing safety Tashaun Gipson to a one-year deal, according to a PFT source. The Texans cut him earlier this week, a year after signing him to a three-year, $22.5 million contract. He started 14 games for Houston last season, going on injured reserve late in the...

Getty Images Veteran cornerback Johnathan Joseph has found a new home and he’ll be staying in the AFC South. Joseph told Josina Anderson of ESPN that he has agreed to a contract with the Titans. Joseph became a free agent in March after playing out his contract with the Texans. Joseph spent...

Getty Images The Texans exercised the fifth-year option on quarterback Deshaun Watson‘s contract. That was an easy decision. The decision on cornerback Gareon Conley‘s deal likely wasn’t a hard one either. The Texans will not exercise the fifth-year option on Conley’s contract, Mark Berman of...

Getty Images David Carr knows the situation Joe Burrow is walking into. And considering the way his own career started after being chosen first overall, he’s hoping things work out differently for the Bengals’ No. 1 overall pick. Carr was sacked 76 times as a rookie quarterback for the...

Getty Images The Chiefs capped the 2019 season with their first Super Bowl win in 50 years. The oddsmakers think they won’t have to wait nearly that long for another. Kansas City remains the betting favorite to win Super Bowl LV in Tampa, with their odds (according to the William Hill...

Getty Images Saints coach Sean Payton said over the weekend that the NFL has only 10 or 11 relevant teams at any given time. If he’s right (and he is), the challenge becomes identifying the 10 or 11 relevant teams. It’s easy to peg six or seven of them. It’s harder to identify the last few, at...

Getty Images The Texans did not get an agreement for a long-term deal with Laremy Tunsil before trading for him last Aug. 31. It worked out well for the left tackle. Tunsil signed a three-year, $66 million extension that includes $50 million guaranteed. His $22 million yearly average reset the...

Getty Images Last March, the Texans signed safety Tashaun Gipson to a three-year, $22.5 million contract. Apparently one year of it was enough. According to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, the Texans are releasing veteran safety Tashaun Gipson. He started 14 games for them last year...

Getty Images NFL teams have until May 4 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET to exercise fifth-year options on 2017 first-round draft choices. The window to sign those players to contract extensions opened Dec. 30, with Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey becoming the first to get a new deal. Some of...

Getty Images In what should come as no surprise to anyone, the Texans exercised the fifth-year option on quarterback Deshaun Watson‘s contract, Field Yates of ESPN reports. Watson was one of the easier option decisions among the 32 players selected in the first-round in 2017. The deadline is...

Getty Images North Carolina offensive tackle Charlie Heck was a top prospect in Day Three. But Chiefs offensive line coach Andy Heck didn’t push Andy Reid to draft his son. “Just imagine Charlie being here, the stress that would put on his mom,” Andy Heck said, chuckling, via Mark Berman of...

Getty Images The Texans didn’t have any picks during the first round of the draft, so they had to wait until the 40th overall selection to add their first rookie to the roster. It won’t be a long trip for the new member of the team. The Texans selected former TCU defensive tackle Ross...

Getty Images At one point during Friday night’s broadcast of the third round of the 2020 draft, cameras captured an angry reaction from Texans coach Bill O’Brien, who stormed away from his at-home setup. His anger was directed at Detroit. According to John McClain of the Houston Chronicle...

Getty Images The Texans want Deshaun Watson as their quarterback long term. A report Friday indicated the team has begun preliminary talks with Watson’s representation. Texans coach and General Manager Bill O’Brien was asked Friday night if getting a deal completed with Watson was an offseason...

Texans coach Bill O’Brien was reportedly “furious” with the Lions on Friday night because Detroit backed out at the last minute on a trade with Houston. But the Lions don’t see it that way. Lions General Manager Bob Quinn said he never agreed to any trade with the Texans. “Listen, we talk to a...

Getty Images Everybody can get off Bill O’Brien’s back now. He acquired Michael Thomas. Oh, wait. According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, the Texans signed veteran safety and special teamer Michael Thomas, who probably gets sick of being called “the other one.” The one the Texans just...

Getty Images The Texans have finalized a three-year contract extension with left tackle Laremy Tunsil, John McClain of the Houston Chronicle reports. The new deal will average $22 million per season. It includes $57 million guaranteed, with a $13 million signing bonus, Aaron Wilson of the...

Getty Images The Texans and left tackle Laremy Tunsil have come to agreement on a three-year contract extension, which means that the team can now turn its attention toward keeping quarterback Deshaun Watson in the fold for years to come. Ed Werder of ESPN reports that the two sides have had...