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Texans place Kenny Stills on non-football illness list, release Ira Savage-Lewis

The Houston Texans have placed receiver Kenny Stills on the non-football illness list, and they cut defensive end Ira Savage-Lewis.

Houston Texans receiver Kenny Stills has reported to training camp, but he won’t be able to get to the practice field just yet.

According to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, Stills has been in Houston working out with quarterback Deshaun Watson, and he did undergo his physical and COVID-19 testing with the Texans.

“With Kenny, he’s a great communicator,” receivers coach John Perry said. “I love having Kenny in the room because he’s a guy that, like I said, is a great communicator. All this offseason when we were doing things virtually — which is a challenge — but he was great. He was a good voice in the room and moving forward I expect that to be the same.”

Stills will still count against the Texans’ roster, which could explain why the club released defensive end Ira Savage-Lewis from the reserve non-football injury list. The former Baylor Bear and Lamar High School product injured his back during offseason workouts.

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Texans release 5 as training camp gets underway

The Houston Texans have released five players as training camp gets underway across the NFL.

The Houston Texans have released five players from their roster as training camp escalates across the league.

The Texans released QB Nick Tiano, C Elex Woodworth, S Shalom Luani, DE Ira Savage-Lewis, and LS Anthony Kukwa.

Tiano and Woodworth were undrafted free agents from Chattanooga and North Texas respectively. In a normal training camp that would have also included preseason games and possibly joint practices with other teams, Tiano would have been a camp arm that would have rounded out an exhibition game roster. Woodworth also would have had increased reps and opportunities to produce quality game tape for pro scouts to reference. The two undrafted rookies also could have battled their way onto the Texans’ practice squad at the start of the regular season.

Luani was a former Oakland Raiders 2017 seventh-round safety who spent 2018 with the Seattle Seahawks and 2019 with the Los Angeles Chargers. Luani had a connection with special teams coordinator Tracy Smith, who was the assistant special teams coach under Brad Seely with the Raiders in 2017. Kukwa similarly had a connection with Smith through the ’17 Raiders.

Savage-Lewis was an undrafted free agent from Baylor in 2019. The Texans placed the former Houston Lamar High School product on injured reserve after the first week of preseason last year.

The transactions place the Texans at 80 on their roster.

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