March 10 (UPI) — Veteran defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins agreed to a one-year deal worth up to $7 million with the Houston Texans, a league source told UPI on Monday.<\/p>\n
Rankins, 30, totaled 18 combined tackles and a sack over seven starts last season. He missed most of the season due to a battle with viral meningitis.<\/p>\n
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The Bengals, who signed Rankins to a two-year, $26 million deal last off-season, released the veteran defender in February. Rankins logged 37 combined tackles, nine tackles for a loss, six sacks and a fumble return for a touchdown over 15 starts for the Texans in 2023.<\/p>\n
The No. 12 overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft spent his first five seasons with the New Orleans Saints. He also spent two seasons with the New York Jets.<\/p>\n
Rankins logged 246 combined tackles, 44 tackles for a loss and 30.5 sacks through the first 116 appearances of his NFL career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 10 (UPI) — Veteran defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins agreed to a one-year deal worth up to $7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[256,2793,7,221,253,2368,55,6,18782,18781,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-55989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","9":"tag-defensive-tackle","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-texans","13":"tag-houstontexans","14":"tag-new-orleans-saints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-rankins","17":"tag-sheldon-rankins","18":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114520149564926338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55989","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=55989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}