{"id":692953,"date":"2026-01-21T05:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692953\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:22:13","slug":"texans-sign-nine-players-to-reserve-deals-following-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692953\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans sign nine players to reserve deals following 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texans sign nine players to reserve deals following 2026 season<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jan. 20, 2026, 4:16 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Houston Texans<\/a> are looking to retain talent for the practice squad entering 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Nine players were signed to future-reserve deals, as first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/sports\/2026\/01\/20\/sources-texans-signing-solomon-byrd-brandon-hill-sidy-sow-junior-tafuna-several-others-to-reserve-future-deals\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KRPC 2 Sports&#8217; Aaron Wilson<\/a>, the team confirmed Tuesday. Houston will retain their rights through the 2026 season offseason, meaning each name could be a part of the active roster this time next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here&#8217;s a list of every name signed to a deal following the team&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/texanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/texans\/2026\/01\/19\/texans-c-j-stroud-wrong-type-of-history-playoff-loss-patriots\/88254226007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">28-16 loss<\/a> against the <a href=\"http:\/\/texanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/texans\/2026\/01\/19\/texans-c-j-stroud-wrong-type-of-history-playoff-loss-patriots\/88254226007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a> in the divisional round.<\/p>\n<p>NAMEPOSITIONAGEEXPCOLLEGESolomon ByrdDE261USCEli CoxC25RKentuckyJosh KellyWR24RTexas TechLuke LacheyTE24RIowaKaevon MerriweatherS263IowaSidy SowG273Eastern MichiganJunior TafunaDT24RUtahXavier ThomasLB262ClemsonJared WayneWR252Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" data-autotag=\"4fdb1a06-1d90-42ff-b7f7-5268ecaf7955\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Texans<\/a> own the No. 28 pick in the upcoming NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 texanswire.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texans sign nine players to reserve deals following 2026 season Jan. 20, 2026, 4:16 p.m. CT The Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[95878,7,221,253,2368,6,96520,96521,95882,97397,95953,101110,95896,95888,95895,95906,95883,101109,222,1461,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-692953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-texans","12":"tag-houstontexans","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sstssportsnfltexans","15":"tag-sstsntexans","16":"tag-tagamerican-football","17":"tag-taghouston","18":"tag-taghouston-texans","19":"tag-tagkaevon-merriweather","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-positive","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-tagxavier-thomas","26":"tag-texans","27":"tag-tx","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115931417505458763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692953","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=692953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}