The first year with Nick Caserio as general manager was going to be a hard one. Just as the Houston Texans didn’t have hardly any picks in the top 100 of the 2021 NFL draft, so too would they be working with diminished salary cap space.
Over the course of the season, as the Texans figure out which players they can build around and which ones would be better suited elsewhere, Houston incurred more costs. It isn’t cheap to release veterans who still had years and money left on their deals.
Here is a list of the 42 contracts that are generating the dead money on the Texans’ salary cap.