{"id":786973,"date":"2026-03-02T16:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/786973\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:02:15","slug":"colts-afc-south-rival-trades-away-starting-offensive-lineman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/786973\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts’ AFC South rival trades away starting offensive lineman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indianapolis Colts’<\/a> division rival, the Houston Texans<\/a>, are trading away one of their starting offensive linemen.<\/p>\n

According to Ian Rapoport<\/a>, the Texans are trading right tackle Tytus Howard to the Cleveland Browns<\/a> in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick. Howard will also get a three-year, $63 million extension with the Browns.<\/p>\n

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Howard was a first-round pick by the Texans in 2019. Over the last two seasons, he has started<\/a> in 32 out of a possible 34 regular-season games.<\/p>\n

Among all offensive tackles last season, Howard ranked tied for 40th in pressures allowed with 26, although he did not surrender any sacks. In PFF’s<\/a> pass-blocking efficiency metric, Howard ranked tied for seventh, and he was 81st in run-blocking grade.<\/p>\n

Howard appeared in 93 career games with the Texans, taking snaps at left guard, right guard, and mostly right tackle.<\/p>\n

For more on this trade, Cole Thompson, the managing editor of Texans Wire<\/a>, had this to say:<\/p>\n

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“According to Texans Over The Cap,<\/a> Houston will save $18 million in cash savings, $4.22 million in initial cap savings, $3.21 million in net cap savings and roughly $23.7 million in dead money. Howard likely wanted a new deal but the Texans weren’t willing to budge entering the final year of his contract.”<\/p>\n

Last season, the Houston offense ranked 22nd<\/a> in yards per rush on the season and was 30th in ESPN’s<\/a> pass block win rate metric.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Colts Wire: Texans’ Tytus Howard trade: Colts’ rival parts with starter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indianapolis Colts’ division rival, the Houston Texans, are trading away one of their starting offensive linemen. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[54,2005,7,253,5328,2004,392,2381,6,3501,764],"class_list":{"0":"post-786973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-cleveland-browns","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-houston-texans","12":"tag-ian-rapoport","13":"tag-indianapolis","14":"tag-indianapolis-colts","15":"tag-indianapoliscolts","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-offensive-linemen","18":"tag-tytus-howard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116160426508010732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786973","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=786973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}