Analyst Expects A Huge Step Back From The Texans In 2026
Skeptics cite a brutal schedule and regression in close games for a projected slide, but C.J. Stroud's elite upside could propel Houston toward an AFC title.
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It was $5 million up to 7 million guaranteed.
That is nothing.
So, like, let's just say that swarm is this big issue.
Okay, it's super low risk.
Like, you could always, you know, cut ties pretty easily.
But I guess to rebut that, it's not an issue.
He's not a swarm issue.
I know him personally.
I know the guy he is, the character, the man, the person he is.
He's not a bad person.
His teammates respect him.
He's a veteran.
He's proven in this league.
And then again, you know, some of the, like, effort stuff early in his career, like, if you wanna focus on that, he's changed.
You know?
Like, he's been getting paid.
Like, he wouldn't have gone from Let me see if I can share this tab.
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So I mean, if you just look at this, I mean, obviously he played four games in his first year in 2014 with the Texans, and then he played 13 games in 2015, 14 in 2016, 16 in 2017, 15 in 2018 with the Texans.
So one, two, three, four, five.
I think he may have had the fifth-year option exercise.
And then he signed with Seattle, when we didn't extend him, signed a one-year deal, played 13 games, signed a one-year deal with the, the Titans in 2020, played eight games.
Cleveland in 2021, played 14 games.
In 2022 played 12.
Baltimore played 17, beat us in the playoffs, was a big impact as part of that game.
And then 2024 with Carolina, 14 games.
And then last year with the Cowboys, 13 games, which I think he signed late.
And like, if you just even, even with signing late and with a number of his seasons being before it's a 17-game schedule, if you go to 153 games-
