The Houston Texans gave up a left tackle’s ransom to acquire Laremy Tunsil. In return, the Miami Dolphins received two first-round picks (2020, 2021) and a 2021 second-round selection as part of the exchange to send Tunsil to the Texans at the end of the 2019 preseason.
The Texans got 28 games out of Tunsil from 2019-20, and he earned his first two career Pro Bowl selections in the process.
In 2021, the Texans didn’t see their Pro Bowl left tackle after Week 5 when Houston fell to 1-4 on the season following a 25-22 loss to the New England Patriots at NRG Stadium. Despite being projected to only be out four weeks, Tunsil never played another down for Houston after his thumb surgery.
General manager Nick Caserio joined “Payne & Pendergast” on Sports Radio 610 [KILT-AM] Tuesday and said the Texans can’t do anything about the past; they have to move forward.
“We can’t worry about what happened last year,” said Caserio. “We’re going to focus on this upcoming season. To your point, Sean, we’re going through the evaluation of our team, where we’re at. I think we have, want to say, 45, 46 players that are currently under contract for next year, including some of the reserve/future players, practice squad-ish players that we signed after the season. We’ll talk about everybody.”
The key piece the Texans are lacking at the moment is a coach. The Texans are searching for their fifth coach in team history after firing David Culley following a 4-13 finish in his lone season on the sidelines.
“We’ll go through our team whenever we do get the head coach in place,” said Caserio. “We’ll probably have to bring them up to speed, I’ll probably have to bring them up to speed on where we are from a personnel standpoint. So, I would say Laremy would fall under that category just like everybody else.”
Tunsil has two years remaining on his contract, and is set to count $26,803,334 against the Texans’ cap in 2022.