{"id":742859,"date":"2026-02-10T16:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/742859\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:52:22","slug":"re-sign-or-replace-every-houston-texans-defensive-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/742859\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Sign or Replace: Every Houston Texans Defensive Free Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Part two of our Re-Sign or Replace analysis for the Houston Texans heading into the NFL Free Agency period, which opens March 9th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I chose to re-sign our two offensive lineman free agents Ed Ingram and Trent Brown while letting Christian Kirk, Nick Chubb, and Dare Ogumbowale find another home in the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Texans are projected to lose three starters on defense: Tim Settle, Sheldon Rankins, and E.J. Speed to free agency. What\u2019s more alarming is amount of depth they\u2019re losing up front with seven defensive lineman set to hit free agency. Fortunately, the projected salary cap increase of $20+M this offseason will afford the Texans the ability to bring several of these dependable defensive players back!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Non-discussion worthy-free agents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part two of our Re-Sign or Replace analysis for the Houston Texans heading into the NFL Free Agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[7,221,253,80647,13785,23939,7162,2368,6,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-742859","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-houston-texans-analysis","12":"tag-houston-texans-depth-chart","13":"tag-houston-texans-free-agency","14":"tag-houston-texans-offseason","15":"tag-houstontexans","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116047377519067875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742859","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=742859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}