From bad contracts handed out by Bill O'Brien to unexpected circumstances this season,...
From bad contracts handed out by predecessor Bill O'Brien to unexpected circumstances this season, Texans general manager Nick Caserio and coach Lovie Smith find themselves in the unusual position of playing with a roster one player shy of the NFL's 53-man limit.The rebuilding franchise partly fielded a team from a list of 52 contracted players in Chicago last weekend, one shy of the NFL’s 53-man limit.
The Texans have utilized their 17-man practice squad, and the maximum two players teams are permitted to elevate each week have played vital roles. Quarterback Jeff Driskel and wide receiver Chris Conley have already both been elevated for two games, but the team’s decision-makers must take careful consideration before they elevate Driskel or Conley again.
Houston’s financial conundrum is temporary. The team’s second-to-last ranked cap space of $1.6 million is expected to balloon to a seventh-ranked $49.7 million in 2023. But the immediate issue tells the story of a franchise overhaul that Caserio has said he knew would be “a massive undertaking” when he was hired.Let’s start with the concept of guaranteed money. It’s partly what got the Texans into cap space disarray, and it’s also what’s helping them lessen the immediate damage.
Such “dead money” hits are the main factors suffocating Houston’s salary cap this season. The Texans lead the NFL with $65.5 million in dead money on their books this season, according to Over The Cap. This essentially means the Texans are devoting almost a third of their salary cap space to players no longer on the team.
None of those contracts lasted beyond Caserio’s first year in Houston. The Texans traded Roby to the Saints last September for a 2022 third-round pick and a conditional sixth in 2023, cut Mercilus in October after the then 31-year-old totaled five sacks in the 19 games following his extension, then waived Cunningham in DecemberAs with Roby, Caserio accepted other immediate cap restraints in exchange for future draft picks.
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