{"id":805006,"date":"2026-03-10T18:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/805006\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:10:13","slug":"former-colts-ot-braden-smith-signs-with-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/805006\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Colts&#8217; OT Braden Smith signs with Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL free agency: Former Colts&#8217; OT Braden Smith signs with Texans<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>March 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Indianapolis Colts&#8217;<\/a> free agent offensive tackle Braden Smith is reportedly signing with a division rival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to Dianna Russini of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Athletic,<\/a> Smith is signing a two-year deal with the Houston Texans. Adam Schefter reports that Smith&#8217;s deal is worth $25 million in total, with $13.5 million fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">(This article will be updated.)<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:3|\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 coltswire.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL free agency: Former Colts&#8217; OT Braden Smith signs with Texans March 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m. ET Indianapolis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[95878,7,221,253,2368,6,49915,95900,95882,95903,95897,95883,222,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-805006","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-sstssportsnflcolts","15":"tag-sstsncolts","16":"tag-tagamerican-football","17":"tag-tagindianapolis-colts","18":"tag-tagoverall-negative","19":"tag-tagsports-news","20":"tag-texans","21":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116206228739636503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805006","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=805006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}