The Cardinals claimed two players off waivers on Monday, according to the NFL’s personnel notice.
Running back Evan Hull and defensive tackle Cam Horsley now are Cardinals.
In corresponding moves, the Cardinals waived defensive tackle Coziah Izzard and wide receiver Tejhuan Palmer.
The Texans released Hull, who was a fifth-round pick of the Colts in 2023. He also has spent time with the Steelers and Saints.
In 2025, he appeared in six games for the Saints and rushed for 48 yards on 19 carries and caught one pass for 6 yards.
He has played eight career games.
Horsely signed with the Titans as an undrafted free agent in 2025 and appeared in one game as a rookie, playing 14 defensive snaps.
The Titans waived him Sunday.
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Jadeveon Clowney says he feels like he’s back home after signing with the Texans.
Clowney, who arrived in Houston as the first overall pick in the 2014 NFL draft but left in 2019 and has played for six different teams since, re-signed with the Texans on Sunday and said he believes Houston is the perfect place for him.
“I felt like they got a good team and I can help contribute. It was a really easy decision,” Clowney told the Houston Chronicle. “It wasn’t about the money.”
The Texans traded Clowney to the Seahawks in 2019 and he played one year in Seattle. He then played one year with the Titans, two with the Browns, one with the Ravens, one with the Panthers and one with the Cowboys. And now he’s back where his NFL career began.
“I’ve grown up and learned the game a lot more since leaving,” Clowney said. “I feel like I can help the younger guys. I’ve learned how to lead and what it takes to get to a Super Bowl. I feel like I can help this team.”
Clowney has never played in a Super Bowl, but he thinks he can do it with the Texans, this season.
“I just know this team is good enough to go, and I can help,” Clowney said. “We’ve got to get to work and stay locked in.”
The 33-year-old Clowney is on the tail end of his career, but he had 8.5 sacks last season, and if he can make that kind of contribution to the pass rush in Houston, he can make an already good defense better.
Yes, receiver DeAndre Hopkins has taken a coaching job at Georgia Tech. No, he hasn’t closed the door on playing in 2026.
“I haven’t retired from the NFL,” Hopkins posted Saturday on Twitter, via Andy Backstrom of Yahoo Sports. “But if you’re a WR and you want to be great, come to Georgia Tech football.”
Hopkins, 34, is keeping himself busy as he waits for another opportunity.
“DeAndre is one of the greatest receivers of all time, but his value to our program goes far beyond that,” Georgia Tech head coach Brent Key said in the statement announcing Hopkins’s arrival. “He has an exceptional knowledge of what we’re doing on offense due to his long relationship with [offensive coordinator] George Godsey and strong familiarity with the ACC, but, most importantly, he’s a leader of men that I’m very excited for our players to be around, on and off the field.”
Hopkins, who spent time working with the Patriots’ coaching staff early in camp, would prefer not to be around, if that means continuing to play. For now, opportunity hasn’t knocked. Hopkins wants the league to know that, even as he works as a coach, he’s ready to keep playing.
A first-round pick in 2013, Hopkins spent seven seasons with the Texans and three with the Cardinals before splitting 2024 between the Titans and Chiefs. He played for the Ravens in 2025.
He has 1,006 career catches, 13,295 receiving yards, and 85 touchdowns. And he’s clearly interested in adding to those numbers during what would be a 14th NFL season.
At a time when the signs were pointing to a potential return to Cleveland from pass rusher Jadeveon Clowney, he’s instead returning to a different former team.
NFL Network reports that Clowney has agreed to terms with the Texans.
Clowney, who arrived in Houston as the first overall pick in the 2014 draft, spent five years there. He was a Pro Bowler in 2016, 2017, and 2018.
After his fifth season, Clowney was traded to the Seahawks. A year later, Clowney joined the Titans. After two seasons in Cleveland, Clowney’s game of NFL hopscotch continued in Baltimore, Carolina, and Dallas.
He had 8.5 sacks in 13 games (six starts) for the Cowboys in 2025.
Clowney joins a defense that is already chock full of superstars. With Will Anderson Jr. and Danielle Hunter as the starters, Clowney gives them a robust rotation that can wear an offensive line down, and that can wear a quarterback out.
Watch the Texans this year. Their defense will continue to be dominant. And their offense needs to simply be competent to provide enough balance to make it to the AFC Championship for the first time and, in turn, to the Super Bowl for the first time.
The Texans are bringing back defensive lineman Mario Edwards.
Edwards was released in March, but Jonathan Alexander of the Houston Chronicle reports that the team is signing him after a visit this weekend.
Edwards had 13 tackles and 1.5 sacks in 14 games for the Texans last season, but missed the rest of the year with a torn pectoral. He also appeared in 13 games and made 12 starts for Houston in 2024.
Aaron Wilson of KPRC reports that the Texans will be signing linebacker Sione Takitaki as well. Takitaki worked out for the team on Friday and will help fill in for Jake Hansen, who is out for an indefinite period with an ankle injury.
Takitaki played in three games for the Vikings last year. He has also appeared in 83 games for the Browns and Patriots.
UPDATE 4:03 p.m. ET: The Texans announced the Edwards signing. They have waived running back Evan Hull and offensive tackle Derrick Graham.
Six years after running back James Robinson rushed for 1,070 yards as a rookie in 2020 with the Jaguars, he’s looking for a path back to the NFL.
Robinson had a tryout on Saturday with the Raiders.
He played most recently for the Louisville Kings of the UFL, rushing for 324 yards in six regular-season games and adding 128 in two postseason games for the eventual league champions.
Robinson was traded to the Jets during his third season, to the Jets. He spent 2023 with the Packers, appearing in only one game and having just one carry. He did not play in the NFL in 2024 or 2025.
For his NFL career, Robinson has rushed for 2,264 yards. (So far.)
Also trying out on Saturday were running backs Dare Ogunbawale and Kenny McIntosh. Ogunbawale, a nine-year veteran, spent the last four seasons in Houston. His tenure including kicking a 29-yard field goal in a 2023 win over Tampa Bay, 39-37, after Texans kicker Ka’imi Fairbarn suffered a quad injury.
McIntosh, a seventh-round pick of the Seahawks in 2024, was released on July 27.
After spending some time with the Patriots during training camp, DeAndre Hopkins has found a more permanent job in coaching.
Per Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports, Georgia Tech is expected to hire Hopkins as a member of the program’s offensive staff.
After departing New England’s training camp, Hopkins has spent time this week visiting with the team.
George Godsey, Georgia Tech’s offensive coordinator, was previously Hopkins’ OC with the Texans from 2015-2016. Godsey was also on last year’s Ravens staff as tight ends coach when Hopkins was with Baltimore.
If this is indeed the end for Hopkins as an NFL player, he’ll finish with 1,006 receptions for 13,295 yards with 85 touchdowns in 195 games over 13 seasons. He had 22 catches for 330 yards with two TDs with the Ravens last year.
With CBS placing No. 1 NFL analyst Tony Romo on leave following a recent arrest for suspicion of operating while intoxicated, his spot needs to be filled.
CBS has announced that it will be filled by J.J. Watt.
The move will result in further adjustments to the full roster. The slate was already going to change, given that Jason McCourty signed an exclusive deal with ESPN and exited his role as a game analyst at CBS.
Watt, a three-time NFL defensive player of the year, normally serves on the No. 2 team at CBS, with Ian Eagles. Watt will work with Jim Nantz until Romo’s leave of absence ends.
It’s unclear when that will happen. Per CBS, Romo will be on leave “until further notice.”
Texans General Manager Nick Caserio told reporters on Wednesday that the team and quarterback C.J. Stroud have had “productive conversations” on a second contract for the young quarterback.
For his part, Stroud said he’s focused on what he can do on the field while his representation handles the negotiation.
“I think everything has been great,” Stroud said in his Wednesday press conference, via transcript from the team. “I’m focused on ball. I’m trying to hold my end of the bargain down on just the football side and do what I can and what I should be doing as the quarterback of this team. I’m letting them handle it, and seems like everything is going great.”
Stroud said he’s not imposing a deadline on when negotiations must end, noting he’s leaving that to his agent.
While there could be some unwanted pressure on a player seeking a new deal, that’s not how Stroud sees it.
“I think pressure is part of my job,” Stroud said. “That’s just something I think is part of the gig and something that I’m not naive to, but I’ve learned you have to keep the main thing the main thing. You have to just focus on one day at a time, one play and the football is what’s gotten me to even have the conversation, to be able to get a second contract. I have to focus on football.”
Stroud feels like if he does that, the contract will take care of itself.
“What I’ve done is what I’ve done on the field and what I will do, we’ll see,” Stroud said. “I think I’ve had some success and I think I’ll continue to have success as a quarterback in this league.
“I’m excited for the future and to pass all the contracts stuff, I love playing football.”
Stroud, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2023 draft, is under contract through 2027 after the Texans exercised his fifth-year option in the spring.
In his 46 career games, Stroud has completed 63.8 percent of his passes for 10,876 yards with 62 touchdowns and 25 interceptions. Last season, Stroud completed 64.5 percent of his throws for 3,041 yards with 19 touchdowns and eight picks in 14 games.
In his NFL career, Texans defensive end Will Anderson has only missed games due to injuries twice: In 2023, when he suffered a high-ankle sprain against the Jets on the turf at MetLife Stadium, and in 2024, when he suffered another high-ankle sprain against the Jets on the turf at MetLife Stadium. He doesn’t think that’s a coincidence.
Asked about the use of real grass in the World Cup, both at MetLife and at the Texans’ NRG Stadium, Anderson said it’s the superior playing surface.
“Yes, most definitely. I would most definitely say grass. Grass 100 percent,” Anderson said. “I think it’s just the natural feel of grass, your feet not getting stuck in the ground like in turf. I had two high ankle sprains up in MetLife because of the turf. I think grass is just a better option.”
Still, Anderson said he hasn’t talked to the Texans about using a grass field in Houston for NFL games.
“Not really. At the end of the day, it’s up to them. They’ll figure it out. You just control what you can control. Go out there and play and do your job,” Anderson said.
The two times in his career that Anderson couldn’t do his job, artificial turf was the reason.
