NFL insider Albert Breer broke it down<\/a>: <\/p>\n“If Stroud\u2019s contract negotiations get sticky, or the Texans prefer to punt them to next year\u2014while rewarding Anderson\u2014will there be friction,” Breer wondered. “Could that impact the Texans\u2019 offseason? Might someone swoop in to see if they could pry the wildly talented 24-year-old away? These are questions other teams have certainly asked, as Stroud\u2019s gone through his ups and downs.” <\/p>\n
In addition to this hypothetical scenario, Breer did note that he believes that the most likely outcome is that the Texans will exercise the fifth-year option on Stroud’s rookie deal which would mean Stroud would be making a fully guaranteed $26.5 million in 2027. Doing so would give the Texans an additional year to either get Stroud right, or learn that despite a Rookie of the Year campaign in 2023, they weren’t able to keep lightning in the very same bottle it was once captured. <\/p>\n
But the idea of trading Stroud is interesting, and this definitely isn’t the last time someone will toss that idea out there between now and either the start of the 2026 season, or the time when Stroud gets his extension… whichever comes first. Teams like the Miami Dolphins, Arizona Cardinals, New York Jets, Las Vegas Raiders, Cleveland Browns and Minnesota Vikings all have questions to answer at quarterback this offseason. How passionately the decision-makers of those franchises may believe that CJ Stroud is the answer remains to be seen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time, not too long ago, that the idea of CJ Stroud not being the quarterback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[7,221,253,2368,6,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-741019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-texans","11":"tag-houstontexans","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116042513310256242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741019","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=741019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}