{"id":133952,"date":"2026-03-09T23:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133952\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:51:07","slug":"reed-blankenship-lands-3-year-24-75m-deal-with-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133952\/","title":{"rendered":"Reed Blankenship lands 3-year, $24.75M deal with Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Former <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-eagles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> safety <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4243956\/reed-blankenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reed Blankenship<\/a> will sign with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-texans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Texans<\/a> on a three-year, $24.75 million deal, agent Kyle McCarthy of Athletes First said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The deal includes $16.5 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Blankenship, an undrafted free agent out of Middle Tennessee State in 2022, went from long shot to steady contributor during his time in Philadelphia. He started four games as a rookie and held down that post for the next three seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Blankenship, 27, was part of a championship defense in 2024 that finished first in passing yards allowed (174.2) and second in opponent points per game (17.8).<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">With a rotating cast in the Eagles&#8217; secondary this past season, largely because of injuries, defensive coordinator Vic Fangio described Blankenship as a &#8220;stabilizing player in our defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Blankenship appeared in 56 games over four seasons in Philadelphia, posting nine interceptions, 23 passes defended and 308 tackles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">ESPN&#8217;s Tim McManus contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Philadelphia Eagles safety Reed Blankenship will sign with the Houston Texans on a three-year, $24.75 million deal,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[61931,61930,1421,6516,139,1418,61929,69,4538,71,70],"class_list":["post-133952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-61931","tag-blankenship-reed","tag-espn","tag-houston-texans","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-free-agency","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}