Tag: Kevin Krajcovic

Texans personnel purge continues under GM Nick Caserio

The Houston Texans have let go their salary cap specialist in Kevin Krajcovic and made other personnel moves as new GM Nick Caserio settles in.

The Nick Caserio administration is starting to take shape in the Houston Texans’ front office.

According to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, the Texans will be moving on from Kevin Krajcovic, who was their director of football administration. Krajcovic oversaw the negotiation of contracts and was the team’s salary cap manager, a job that he had to undertake after longtime senior vice president of football administration, Chris Olsen, left the team following Bill O’Brien’s promotion to general manager and Jack Easterby’s promotion from executive vice president of team development to executive vice president of football operations. Krajcovic had been in his most recent role since February of 2020.

Houston also let go equipment manager Mike Parson and his entire staff, which included Doug West, who was the director of practice facility development and special projects.

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The Texans’ goal was to extend Deshaun Watson before the 2020 season started

Houston Texans coach and general manager Bill O’Brien says it was a goal of the organization to lock up Deshaun Watson before the start of the season.

The Houston Texans were eligible to begin contract extension talks with quarterback Deshaun Watson as soon as the 2019 season ended.

As the disappointing of the Kansas City Chiefs drubbing the Texans 51-31 in the divisional playoffs subsided, the anticipation of extending the two-time Pro Bowl quarterback began to build.

According to coach and general manager Bill O’Brien, working out a contract extension with Watson before the regular season was a goal of executive vice president of football operations Jack Easterby and football administration coordinator Kevin Krajcovic, who O’Brien said “did a great job in this whole process.”

“I think we felt that it was important to get this done before the season,” O’Brien said. “We worked hard on it, like I said, with Deshaun’s agent David Mulugheta, and both sides worked very hard on it. I think it’s great that it’s done before the season.”

The extension keeps Watson under contract with the AFC South club through the 2025 season to the tune of $160 million total money. Watson is slated to earn $39 million annually, making him the second-highest paid quarterback in the NFL. The highest paid quarterback is Super Bowl LIV MVP, Patrick Mahomes, who will be in Kansas City waiting on Watson and the Texans.

Similarly, O’Brien knows the team has to quickly move on from the success of extending Watson to preparing for the challenge of beating the defending Super Bowl champions in their own venue to start the regular season.

“You have to obviously quickly turn the page to the Kansas City Chiefs, which we started that process [Saturday night], and that’s what we’ll work hard towards all week leading up to Thursday night,” O’Brien said.

Who is managing the Texans’ salary cap?

The Houston Texans are in their first free agency period without Chris Olsen since 2007. Who is managing their salary cap space now?

The Houston Texans are in their first free agency period without Chris Olsen managing the salary cap. Olsen was relieved of his duties as senior vice president of football administration on Jan. 19, a post he had held since 2007.

Who is managing the Texans’ salary cap now?

Meet Kevin Krajcovic, the football administration coordinator for the Texans, who got the title in 2019. The Ohio University alumnus assisted Olsen with negotiating player contracts and also the club’s salary cap.

Krajcovic isn’t exactly new to the operation as he spent the last seven seasons with the Texans as a football administration analyst. Prior to that, Krajcovic, who holds two master’s degrees in sports administration and business administration, was an intern with the Texans for two seasons.

The Texans have the fourth-highest salary cap space in the NFL at $46.2 million, according to Over The Cap. Krajcovic has learned well from Olsen. the Texans need Krajcovic to keep count of the cap dollars as they attempt to re-sign left tackle Laremy Tunsil to presumably the largest contract for an offensive lineman in the NFL and also negotiate an extension with Deshaun Watson.