{"id":760025,"date":"2026-02-18T09:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/760025\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:42:23","slug":"nfl-insider-says-texans-cj-stroud-might-be-on-the-trade-block-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/760025\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Insider says Texans CJ Stroud might be on the trade block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 17, 2026, 7:46 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">There have been a lot of trade rumors going around, and the latest might be the biggest shocker of them all. According to NFL draft expert Todd McShay, <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\">Houston Texans<\/a> quarterback CJ Stroud may be on the trade block.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cStroud hasn\u2019t been the guy the last two years in Houston that he was in his rookie year,\u201d McShay said via NFL reporter Arye Pulli. \u201cSome [teams] are looking at that and saying, can we get that rookie year out of Stroud here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As a rookie, Stroud threw for 4,108 yards with 23 touchdowns, but since then, his numbers have fallen off, and it was glaring during the playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While the Texans&#8217; defense carried this team the last few years, Stroud has struggled, and the fact that there are even talks of a possible trade is a shocker. While we\u2019ve seen the development of his peers like Bryce Young, Stroud hasn&#8217;t come on as quickly as the Texans would like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This was Bryce Young\u2019s first year in the playoffs, and although he had an up-and-down year, he shone in the playoffs, unlike Stroud. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> extended his contract through 2026, as Stroud remains undecided.<\/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 class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Although Stroud may not be traded this year, next year may be his final year with the team if they don\u2019t see some improvement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 17, 2026, 7:46 p.m. ET There have been a lot of trade rumors going around, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[95878,7,221,253,2368,6,99115,99116,95882,96165,96676,96059,95953,95896,95888,95895,95897,95899,95883,222,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-760025","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-sstssportsnfltouchdown","15":"tag-sstsntouchdown","16":"tag-tagamerican-football","17":"tag-tagbryce-young","18":"tag-tagc-j-stroud","19":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","20":"tag-taghouston-texans","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagnfl-hub","24":"tag-tagoverall-negative","25":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-texans","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116090985007043437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760025","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=760025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}