{"id":337812,"date":"2025-09-03T07:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/337812\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:57:10","slug":"texans-extend-qb-davis-mills-on-fully-guaranteed-deal-through-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/337812\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans extend QB Davis Mills on fully guaranteed deal through 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Davis Mills<\/a> is sticking around in Houston through the 2026 NFL season.<\/p>\n

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Texans <\/a>are giving their backup quarterback a new one-year, $7 million fully guaranteed deal, keeping him in Houston through next season. This is the second time Houston has given Mills a fully guaranteed deal, though that one was $5 million.<\/p>\n

Mills, a former third-round pick out of Stanford and the first pick in the Nick Caserio era, hasn’t started a game since he played in the season finale win over the Indianapolis Colts<\/a>\u00a0in January 2023. He hrew for 298 yards and three touchdowns, as well as the game-winning two-point conversion pass to tight end\u00a0Jordan Akins.<\/p>\n

That win gave the Chicago Bears<\/a>, and later the Carolina Panthers<\/a>, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft. With the No. 2 pick, Houston selected C.J. Stroud as the new fave of the franchise.<\/p>\n

Since Stroud’s arrival, it’s been clear he’d be the starter once he won the job over Mills. Over the past two seasons, Stroud has led Houston to back-to-back AFC South titles and divisional-round appearances in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

But Mills is well-liked in the locker room and considered a leader in the clubhouse. He’s started 26 games in his career, going 5-20-1 while throwing for 5,802 yards with 33 touchdowns and 25 interceptions.<\/p>\n

Since Stroud’s arrival in Houston, Mills has thrown 75 passes for 385 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions.<\/p>\n

“I feel really good about Davis,” Texans<\/a> coach DeMeco Ryans said. “Davis has had the best camp that I’ve seen since he’s been here.”<\/p>\n

The Texans play the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davis Mills is sticking around in Houston through the 2026 NFL season. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[115,1466,247,265,374,235,260,692,391,2005,3629,24165,3601,3607,12,388,7,221,253,2368,20842,379,2004,392,15584,248,267,88,6,35196,245,537,236,530,3602,327,9,266,982,1968,222,1461,381],"class_list":{"0":"post-337812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-afc","9":"tag-afc-south","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-american-football","12":"tag-bears","13":"tag-carolina","14":"tag-carolina-panthers","15":"tag-chicago","16":"tag-chicago-bears","17":"tag-colts","18":"tag-davis","19":"tag-davis-mills","20":"tag-demeco","21":"tag-demeco-ryans","22":"tag-espn","23":"tag-espn-inc","24":"tag-football","25":"tag-houston","26":"tag-houston-texans","27":"tag-houstontexans","28":"tag-hub","29":"tag-inc","30":"tag-indianapolis","31":"tag-indianapolis-colts","32":"tag-mills","33":"tag-national","34":"tag-national-sports","35":"tag-news","36":"tag-nfl","37":"tag-nfl-hub","38":"tag-overall","39":"tag-overall-positive","40":"tag-panthers","41":"tag-positive","42":"tag-ryans","43":"tag-south","44":"tag-sports","45":"tag-sports-news","46":"tag-stanford","47":"tag-stanford-university","48":"tag-texans","49":"tag-tx","50":"tag-university"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}