{"id":514009,"date":"2026-03-02T14:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514009\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:19:09","slug":"texans-trade-starting-rt-tytus-howard-to-browns-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514009\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans trade starting RT Tytus Howard to Browns, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daniel OyefusiMar 2, 2026, 08:16 AM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Daniel Oyefusi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. Prior to ESPN, he covered the Miami Dolphins for the Miami Herald, as well as the Baltimore Ravens for The Baltimore Sun.<\/p>\n

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The Houston Texans<\/a> have agreed to trade starting right tackle Tytus Howard<\/a> to the Cleveland Browns<\/a> for a fifth-round draft pick, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n

Howard will receive a three-year, $63 million extension from the Browns, his agent told Schefter.<\/p>\n

The trade, which cannot be finalized until the start of the new league year on March 11, marks the first move in what is expected to be a major offensive line overhaul this offseason for the Browns.<\/p>\n

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Only one Week 1 offensive line starter — tackle Dawand Jones<\/a>, who is rehabbing from a serious leg injury — is under contract for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Cleveland ranked 20th in pass block win rate and 24th in run block win rate in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Howard, who turns 30 in May, has spent his entire seven-year career with the Texans, starting 93 games. This past season, he started games at right tackle, right guard and left guard. As a tackle, Howard ranked 52nd out of 68 qualifying tackles in pass block win rate and 49th in run block win rate.<\/p>\n

This is the second straight year the Browns and Texans have agreed to a trade for an offensive tackle. Cleveland also made a midseason trade for Cam Robinson<\/a>, who started 13 games but is an impending unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel OyefusiMar 2, 2026, 08:16 AM ET CloseDaniel Oyefusi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. Prior to ESPN,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-514009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}