Free agent tight end Foster Moreau has agreed to terms with the Texans, Nick Underhill of NewOrleans.Football reports.
Moreau, who turns 29 in May, will join a tight ends room that has Dalton Schultz as the starter.
The Saints added Noah Fant to the position to replace Moreau.
Moreau played 11 games for the Saints in 2025 after missing time at the beginning of the season on the physically unable to perform list and at the end of the season with an ankle injury. He caught seven passes for 59 yards.
He spent the past three seasons in New Orleans after signing as a free agent in 2023.
Moreau was with the Raiders for his first four seasons.
He has appeared in 104 games in his seven seasons, making 151 receptions for 1,722 yards and 18 touchdowns.
Texans Clips
The Titans are signing veteran punter Tommy Townsend to a two-year deal worth up to $6 million, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.
Townsend, 29, spent the past two seasons in Houston. The Texans traded for Saints punter Kai Kroeger earlier Tuesday.
Townsend had an up-and-down 2025 season but finished with a 47.6-yard average on 72 punts with a 41.6-yard net.
He spent his first four seasons in Kansas City and made the Pro Bowl and first-team All-Pro in 2022.
In his career, Townsend has averaged 47.6 yards on 349 punts with a 42.8-yard net.
Johnny Hekker was the Titans’ punter last season, averaging 46.8 yards on 78 punts, with a 40.3-yard net.
The Texans have agreed to terms with free agent defensive lineman Logan Hall on a two-year, $7 million deal, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports.
Hall, who turns 26 next month, entered the NFL as a second-round pick of the Buccaneers in 2022. He spent his first four seasons in Tampa.
Hall has played all but two games in his career.
In 2025, he appeared in all 17 games, with 16 starts, and totaled 39 tackles and 1.5 sacks.
He has recorded 101 tackles, 10 sacks, 23 quarterback hits and four passes defensed in his career.
The Texans are trading for Saints punter Kai Kroeger, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports. The teams will swap late-round picks, with the Saints receiving Houston’s sixth-rounder in 2028 and the Texans receiving New Orleans’ seventh-rounder that same year.
Kroeger, 23, signed with the Saints as an undrafted free agent out of South Carolina last year.
He finished his rookie season averaging 44.8 yards on 56 punts, with a 37.3-yard net. Kroeger landed 18 punts inside the 20, while getting two punts blocked.
The Texans are replacing veteran Tommy Townsend, who had an up-and-down season. He averaged 47.6 yards per punt with a net of 41.6.
Houston also extended the contract of kicker Ka’imi Fairbairn on Tuesday.
The i’s are dotted; the t’s are crossed; and apparently, all of the Texans’ contract extensions have been approved by the NFL.
The team made the signings of defensive end Danielle Hunter, offensive guard Ed Ingram, tight end Dalton Schultz, offensive tackle Trent Brown, safety M.J. Stewart and linebacker E.J. Speed official by announcing the extensions.
All the extensions were previously reported.
A report on Tuesday morning indicated the contracts given to Hunter and Schultz were disapproved by the league official. The Texans, according to the report, considered the issue minor and a matter of semantics.
Hunter got one year and $40 million added to his deal, while Schultz will see another year and $12.6 million on his.
The Texans re-signed kicker Ka’imi Fairbairn on Tuesday, but that was not among the signings announced by the team.
The Texans are moving to bolster their special teams units in free agency.
Dianna Russini of TheAthletic.com reports that they have agreed to terms on a two-year deal with former Rams and Ravens linebacker Jake Hummel. No other details of the pact have been reported.
Hummel spent his first three NFL seasons with the Rams and moved to the Ravens in 2025. He played 82 percent of the team’s special teams snaps and played at least two-thirds of those snaps in each of his years in Los Angeles, but has only played 150 career snaps on defense.
Hummel has 49 career tackles and one tackle for loss in 58 overall appearances.
The Texans are adding a veteran offensive tackle.
Houston has agreed to a two-year deal with Braden Smith, according to multiple reports.
The initial numbers indicate Smith’s deal is worth $20 million.
Smith, 29, will stay in the AFC South after playing the first eight years of his career for the Colts.
Smith has dealt with multiple injury issues over the last few years. He has not played a full slate of games since 2019, when he started all 16. He played 16 games in 2022 as well. But in the last three seasons, he’s started 10, 12, and 13 games for Indianapolis.
The Texans recently agreed to trade Tytus Howard to the Browns. Smith could be a replacement for Howard at right tackle.
The Texans already had kicker Ka’imi Fairbairn under contract for 2026 and they’ve made a move to make sure he’ll be around beyond next season as well.
NFL Media reports that Fairbairn has agreed to a two-year extension in Houston. The deal is worth $13 million.
The $6.5 million average annual value would make Fairbairn the highest-paid kicker in the league.
Fairbairn is heading into his 10th season with the Texans and he ranks third in most game played for the franchise. He led the league with 44 made field goals and 48 attempts during the 2025 season. The 44 made field goals tie David Akers for the most in a single season by any player.
Fairbairn is 255-of-291 on those kicks over his entire career and he’s also made 93.4 percent of his extra point attempts.
The Lions have replaced running back David Montgomery, who will officially be traded on Wednesday to the Texans.
Via Tom Pelissero of NFL Media, the Lions have agreed to terms with former Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco.
Pacheco, a seventh-round pick in 2022, has appeared in 51 regular-season games with 42 starts. Once the Chiefs agreed to terms with running back Kenneth Walker III, Pacheco’s return to the Chiefs became highly unlikely.
He had a career-high 935 rushing yards in 2023. Last year, he gained only 462 rushing yards in 13 games, with 12 starts. Still, he runs with an intensity that will help move the sticks between the tackles.
In Detroit, Pacheco will become the clear No. 2 to emerging star Jahmyr Gibbs, and insurance in the event Gibbs is injured.
Terms have not yet been reported. Whatever the deal is worth, Gibbs is likely to get a contract before the season begins that will put him at the top of the market.
Gibbs shouldn’t set foot on the practice field until he gets a new deal.
The Texans agreed to one-year contracts with pass rusher Danielle Hunter and tight end Dalton Schultz before the start of free agency, but contracts aren’t official in the NFL until the league office has approved them. And the league office did not approve them.
The NFL disapproved both contracts after they were submitted to the league office on Monday, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
There’s no word on what the specific issue was with the contracts, but the Texans apparently think the issue is minor: They consider it a matter of semantics and expect to get new contracts approved soon, according to the report.
Hunter reportedly got one year and $40 million, while Schultz reportedly got one year and $12.6 million added to his deal.
