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ESPN ranks the Texans as having the worst roster in the NFL

The Houston Texans have the worst roster in the entire NFL according to a new roster ranking from ESPN.

It may come as no surprise to Houston sports fans that the Texans may have the worst roster in the entire NFL.

So says ESPN at least. According to ESPN’s Ben Linsey, who looks at the biggest strength, weakness, and X-factor for the Texans, the problem’s with Houston’s roster can be found with their offensive line.

Biggest weakness: Houston’s defensive line ranked dead last in PFF overall grade as a unit (47.0) in 2020. And that was despite J.J. Watt earning an 85.4 overall grade on more than 1,000 defensive snaps. It’s hard to have much optimism surrounding this group with Shaq Lawson stepping in for Watt. The Texans will need younger players, such as Charles Omenihu and Ross Blacklock, to take big steps forward if their defensive line is to be anything other than the NFL’s worst such unit again this season.

The biggest strength on the Texans’ roster is left tackle Laremy Tunsil, who has proven to be a tremendous pass protector in the last two seasons with two Pro Bowl selections to show for it.

Houston’s wild-card is quarterback Tyrod Taylor, and Linsey notes that the former Pro Bowler was a three-year starter for the Buffalo Bills before becoming a backup.

One of the biggest problem’s with Houston’s roster is the abundance of transient players who are on one-year contracts. The Texans don’t particularly have players they can rely on for the long-term. Positions that may be “solved” for 2021 will come up as a need to be addressed in 2022.

However, first-year general manager Nick Caserio says churning the roster is part of the nature of pro football.

“25 to 30% of the team is going to be new anyway,” Caserio told “Payne & Pendergast” on Sports Radio 610 [KILT-AM] on June 14. “So, again, what you try to do is look at what you’re dealing with right now with your team and each year is different. Each team is going to be different.

“We’ve added a number of new players to our team. I think that’s been talked about throughout the course of the spring. So, again, we just try to do what we felt was best for our situation.”

Texans’ Laremy Tunsil ranks as eighth-best left tackle in the NFL

Houston Texans left tackle Laremy Tunsil is the eighth-best tackle in the game according to Pro Football Focus.

Just about the only elite position remaining on the Houston Texans offense is left tackle, and a recent ranking of all 32 left tackles in the NFL proves it.

According to Anthony Treash of Pro Football Focus, Laremy Tunsil was ranked as the eighth-best left tackle in the NFL.

Tunsil has been a standout pass-blocker but a middling run-blocker in every season of his NFL career. He trails only Ronnie Stanley and David Bakhtiari in pass-blocking grade among tackles since coming to Houston in 2019. Considering the sheer number of long-developing plays he has endured as a Texan, that is quite impressive.

On plays where the quarterback gets rid of the ball within three seconds of the snap, Tunsil ranks second among tackles in pressure rate allowed. At the same time, he sits right at the 50th percentile in run-blocking grade at his position over the past couple of years. Tunsil’s price tag in his trade to Houston was clearly too high, but his pass-blocking prowess easily makes him a top-10 tackle.

Much like Tunsil’s days with the Miami Dolphins from 2016-18, the former first-round pick from Ole Miss will have to do his job while the offense platoons it at quarterback. If Tunsil, who earned both of his career Pro Bowl selections with the Texans, can play at that top tier level, whoever is under center should have plenty of time to make better decisions with the football.

How does Orlando Brown Jr. trade compare to Dolphins’ Laremy Tunsil deal?

Orlando Brown Jr. trade compared to Dolphins’ Laremy Tunsil deal

The NFL has seen their latest major NFL offensive tackle trade, with the news breaking yesterday that the Baltimore Ravens were sending Orlando Brown Jr. to the Kansas City Chiefs amid a slew of exchanged draft choices. But the gold standard of trade compensation for offensive tackles was defined a few years back when the Miami Dolphins traded tackle Laremy Tunsil to the Houston Texans.

How do the two trades compare?

The Dolphins’ trade of Tunsil netted the team multiple 1st-round draft choices and was decidedly lopsided:

Houston received:
– OT Laremy Tunsil
– WR Kenny Stills
– 2020 fourth-round pick (No. 111 overall)
– 2021 sixth-round pick 

Miami received: 
– 2020 first-round pick (No. 18 overall)
– 2021 first-round pick (No. 3 overall)
– 2021 second-round pick (No. 36 overall) 
– DB Johnson Bademosi 
– OT Julien Davenport

The trade, if you omit the fringe players in the mix (Davenport, Bademosi and Stills) and total all of the true values of the draft choices involved, valued Tunsil as over 3,500 points on the Jimmy Johnson trade value chart. That total in value exceeds the value of the No. 1 overall pick by over 500 points.

Below, you’ll find the full terms of Baltimore and Kansas City’s trade featuring Brown Jr.

The point values of the assets involved?

Kansas City received assets valued at approximately 336 points plus Brown Jr himself. Baltimore received assets valued at approximately 772 points. The full values cannot be calculated until the 2022 NFL Draft order is finalized at the end of the 2021 NFL season.

Brown’s value in this deal? 436 total points — approximately the value of the No. 46 overall pick in the NFL Draft. So while Baltimore should be pleased with their returns for Orlando Brown Jr, one thing is abundantly clear. The Ravens and Chiefs both unanimously agreed that Brown Jr. is a fraction of the value that Tunsil was worth on the trade market.

Laremy Tunsil gifts his mom with a sparkling Bentley

Laremy Tunsil surprised his mom with a new car, a dazzling Bentley, and her reaction was priceless

Laremy Tunsil has made someone other than the Miami Dolphins thrilled.

The Houston Texans’ offensive tackle, who has turned into a plethora of high draft picks for the AFC East team that traded him, made Mother’s Day come early for his mom.

Check out the reaction as Desiree gets her first look at the Bentley, which is a gift from her son.

The reaction, like the car, is priceless.

And Tunsil put some sweet sentiments along with the wheels on his Instagram post:

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Tears of Joy
let them Pour
Just 2 see the look on your face.
PRICELESS!
Know there’s no more pain
Nothing but tranquility & Love
FREE!
U deserve every ounce of Joy
This world have 2 offer.

– LT

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNGe_lLLVFY/

TMZ provided the intel on what model the car appears to be:

… a Bentley Continental GT Speed. This model can get to 60 MPH in 3.5 seconds, has a top speed of 208 MPH and reportedly starts around $200k!!!

 

Texans LT Laremy Tunsil shared hilarious photo depicting his role in Dolphins’ latest blockbuster trade

The Dolphins have turned Laremy Tunsil into four first-round picks, two second-round picks and a third-round pick.

The Miami Dolphins have been working magic by turning draft picks into even more draft capital, as evidenced by their latest blockbuster trades with the San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles.

Of course, none of that would be possible without Miami’s decision to trade left tackle Laremy Tunsil to the Houston Texans back in September 2019. The Dolphins received first-round picks in 2020 and 2021 and a second-round pick in 2021 for Tunsil.

Miami’s latest trade came on Friday when they dealt the third overall pick to the 49ers in exchange for the 12th overall selection, a 2022 third-round pick and first-round picks in 2022 and 2023.

But, wait, they weren’t done yet.

The Dolphins then traded that 12th overall pick, as well as a 2021 fourth-round pick and a 2022 first-round pick, to the Eagles for the sixth overall selection and a fifth-rounder this year.

There have certainly been a lot of moving parts — and draft picks — that stem back to that original trade for Tunsil, who has been the catalyst for the Dolphins’ rebuilding efforts.

Tunsil shared a hilarious photoshopped picture with a statue in his honor outside of Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, along with the draft haul that the Dolphins have now received since trading Tunsil two years ago.

Miami has turned Tunsil into four first-round picks, two second-round picks and a third-round pick, an impressive feat for a team that has become a playoff contender that also happens to be rebuilding in the process.

Who knows, if the Dolphins end up building a winning roster that can compete in the postseason in the future — perhaps even win a Super Bowl — who’s to say that photoshop won’t become reality.

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Texans restructure LT Laremy Tunsil’s contract; save over $10 million in cap space

The Houston Texans have restructured Laremy Tunsil’s salary and have saved over $10 million in salary cap space.

General manager Nick Caserio is great at creating salary cap space.

According to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Texans have restructured the contract of two-time Pro Bowler Laremy Tunsil and saved $10.106 million in salary cap space.

Tunsil originally signed a three-year, $66 million contract in April of 2020. The former Miami Dolphins 2016 first-round pick negotiated his own extension with then-general manager Bill O’Brien and executive vice present of football operations Jack Easterby.

“I think I for sure started a trend by not having an agent and doing my deal on my own,” Tunsil told reporters on April 27, 2020. “The players that I talked to, for instance like Bobby Wagner, he actually told me that it was pretty easy doing a deal by yourself and the toughest part about doing a deal on your own was just the terminology — not knowing the terminology and just learning the terminology and being able to voice it to the coaches.”

The contract came with $50 million guaranteed with a $13 million signing bonus with a $22 million per year average.

Tunsil’s original base salary of $16.15 million was converted into a $15.16 million signing bonus. For 2021, the 6-5, 313-pound left tackle has a base salary of $900,000 fully guaranteed and counts $9.29 million against the Texans’ salary cap.

What is the Texans’ biggest draft mistake of the past 5 years?

The Houston Texans have had home runs in the draft, but also haven’t been perfect. What is their biggest mistake in the draft the past five years?

The Houston Texans have had their fair share of draft successes in the past five years. Quarterback Deshaun Watson was an easy pick in 2017, and the Texans also cultivated great value out of third-round safety Justin Reid in 2018.

No one is perfect, and Houston has also had their share of misses in the same span. What is considered the biggest draft mistake the Texans have made in the past five years?

According to Michael Renner of Pro Football Focus, the Texans’ biggest mistake was giving up a king’s ransom — two first-round picks and a second-rounder — for Miami Dolphins tackle Laremy Tunsil.

This has nothing to do with Laremy Tunsil and everything to do with their complete misappropriation of value. Trading two first-round picks only to break the bank for a starting left-tackle is objectively bad business. The fact that the latest first-rounder turned into No. 3 overall this year should serve as a cautionary tale when dealing future firsts.

The Tunsil trade is a cautionary tale of what can happen when a coach gets too much input on personnel acquisition. The trade with the Dolphins occurred at the end of preseason in 2019, and general manager Brian Gaine was fired on June 7. If the Texans had a real general manager in place, and not a five-man general managing council with vice president of football administration Chris Olsen as interim GM yet O’Brien having considerable influence over the team, maybe the trade doesn’t happen.

Coach Bill O’Brien thought his coaching abilities would be strong enough to compensate for any loss of draft picks. Do those picks really matter if they are in the twenties? Of course, O’Brien was wrong, and now the Texans are missing big pieces that would be instrumental in accelerating a retooling under new general manager Nick Caserio and coach David Culley.

A distant second would be the decision to draft receiver Will Fuller. In terms of consistency, Fuller has hardly lived up to his first-round billing. However, his big-play ability is profound enough to keep him from being considered a bust.

Texans vs. Titans Week 17 inactives: LT Laremy Tunsil out

The Houston Texans declared their inactives for the Tennessee Titans in Week 17, and LT Laremy Tunsil is out.

The Houston Texans announced their Week 17 inactives as they get ready to play the Tennessee Titans to close out the 2020 season Sunday at 3:25 p.m. CT at NRG Stadium.

Left tackle Laremy Tunsil (ankle), who was doubtful for the game, was declared inactive. The Texans will roll with Roderick Johnson at left tackle.

Running back Duke Johnson, cornerback Phillip Gaines, receiver Damion Ratley, safety Geno Stone, and quarterback Josh McCown were declared inactive.

For the Titans, running back Senorise Perry, defensive back Chris Jackson, cornerback Kareem Orr, running back D’Onta Foreman, and linebacker Derick Roberson were declared inactive.

A win gets the Titans the AFC South and a home game in the AFC wild-card. The Texans’ season is over at the end of the game.

Texans vs. Titans Week 17 injury report: LT Laremy Tunsil doubtful

The Houston Texans released their last injury report for Week 17 against the Tennessee Titans and LT Laremy Tunsil is doubtful.

The Houston Texans released their final injury report as they gear up to take on the Tennessee Titans Sunday at 3:25 p.m. CT at NRG Stadium.

Here is a look at the final injury report for Houston. For more information on the Titans’ injury report, check out the Titans Wire.