{"id":853850,"date":"2026-04-04T20:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/853850\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:09:14","slug":"demeco-ryans-makes-feelings-clear-on-texans-sheldon-rankins-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/853850\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMeco Ryans Makes Feelings Clear on Texans’ Sheldon Rankins Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston Texans<\/a>‘ offseason has been filled with an abundance of activity not just due to bringing in big upgrades from the free agency market, but also by their aggressiveness to retain key pieces on both sides of the ball with new contracts or extensions.<\/p>\n

One of the most critical deals of those names retained, in the eyes of head coach DeMeco Ryans<\/a>, was none other than veteran defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins.<\/p>\n

Rankins, who signed a brand-new two-year contract worth $12 million<\/a>, comes off one of the best years of his time in the league. He was someone that Ryans was eager to get back not only because of what he does on the field, but of his connection to those on the defensive line off the field as well:<\/p>\n

“It was important to try to re-sign our guys,” Ryans said on Texans Radio<\/a>. “So, first off, getting Sheldon Rankins back, that was a huge one for us. I thought Sheldon had an outstanding year, one of the best of his career, and looking for him to continue to build off of that.”<\/p>\n

“And not just what he does on the field; what he does off the field with the defensive line. Just how he’s a leader of that group. The relationship that he and Will have is really a dynamic relationship, and he’s helped Will Anderson a lot. So, thankful to get him back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Texans‘ offseason has been filled with an abundance of activity not just due to bringing in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2056],"tags":[7,221,253,2368,6,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-853850","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-houstontexans","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116348255570990636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853850","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=853850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}