March 29, 2026, 10:11 a.m. CT<\/p>\n
Wyatt Teller’s family<\/a> knew that he’d be playing for the Houston Texans<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n Well, at least his son Brooks had a pretty good inclination when trying to predict the future.<\/p>\n As Teller put it in his first interaction with the media last week, he was just returning from a hunting trip in South Texas when his wife asked the boy where he thought his Dad would be playing next season<\/a> when teams broke camp in the summer.<\/p>\n His answer?<\/p>\n Houston, a place he had never been before and only knew of from his Dad’s time playing against the franchise in the wild-card round back in 2023.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cHe was all-out on the Texans<\/a>,\u201d Teller said. \u201cI just thought that that was \u2014 being a man of faith \u2014 it was like, \u2018Wait, do you know something that I don’t know?\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Brooks must have received a message from the future that NRG Stadium and the crop of Texans fans would love his family to head down the Lone Star State. Two weeks into the start of free agency, the Tellers made the move official, with Wyatt signing a two-year, $16 million contract<\/a> following eight seasons with the Cleveland Browns<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe he is Nostradamus, who knows?\u201d Teller laughed when talking about his son.\u00a0<\/p>\n As the newest addition to Houston’s offensive line, Teller looks to be the missing link at guard. Houston will have at least two new starters with the arrival of Teller and former Colts right tackle Braden Smith, which could be beneficial for a team amid a run toward its first-ever conference championship appearance.<\/p>\n Signing Teller is promising on paper, but the production will tell if this ends up being a move that gets Houston over the hump. Last season, the former three-time Pro Bowler was a part of one of the league’s worst offensive lines that eventually led to the firing of former two-time Coach of the Year candidate Kevin Stefanski.<\/p>\n Teller was solid, but wasn’t alone in his struggles following his final Pro Bowl season in 2023. Over the past two seasons, he’s missed eight games, including three with a calf injury in 2025. Even after he was healthy, Teller battled for starting reps with former Bears starter Teven Jenkins.<\/p>\n That doesn’t mean he’ll be a terrible fit. In fact, Teller believes that one of the things Cleveland turned away from last season was running the football, an area of strength that revitalized his career as a standout blocker. It’s also something the Texans plan on introducing more of in the offensive personnel after the arrival of Detroit Lions bruiser running back David Montgomery after a woeful season on the ground.<\/p>\n \u201cGetting away from that run game hurt my heart as an offensive lineman,\u201d he said. \u201cPassing the ball 70 percent of the time is never good for anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n The Texans will look to build off a 12-win campaign entering 2026. If Teller is the reason why the franchise can get over the hump, perhaps Brooks becomes an honorary born-and-bred Houstonian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 29, 2026, 10:11 a.m. CT Wyatt Teller’s family knew that he’d be playing for the Houston Texans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[95878,7,221,253,2368,6,96520,96521,95882,97087,96790,97397,95953,96682,95896,95888,96683,96685,95895,96681,96686,96680,96687,96684,95899,96177,95883,106867,108691,222,1461,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-841706","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-sstssportsnfltexans","15":"tag-sstsntexans","16":"tag-tagamerican-football","17":"tag-tagbreaking-news-social","18":"tag-tagdavid-montgomery","19":"tag-taghouston","20":"tag-taghouston-texans","21":"tag-tagmadden-nfl","22":"tag-tagnational-sports","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagnfl-draft","25":"tag-tagnfl-films","26":"tag-tagnfl-hub","27":"tag-tagnfl-junkies","28":"tag-tagnfl-mvp","29":"tag-tagnfl-overreactions","30":"tag-tagnfl-playoffs","31":"tag-tagnfl-scouting-combine","32":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","33":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","34":"tag-tagsports-news","35":"tag-tagteven-jenkins","36":"tag-tagwyatt-teller","37":"tag-texans","38":"tag-tx","39":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841706","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=841706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}