{"id":193323,"date":"2026-03-06T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193323\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:00:14","slug":"houston-texans-de-danielle-hunter-agree-to-40-1m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193323\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Texans, DE Danielle Hunter agree to $40.1M extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 6 (UPI) — The Houston Texans<\/a> agreed to a one-year, $40.1 million contract extension with defensive end Danielle Hunter.<\/p>\n

Sources told NFL Network<\/a>, ESPN<\/a> and the Houston Chronicle<\/a> about the deal, which features a $30.7 million signing bonus, on Thursday. Hunter, who signed a one-year, $35.6 million extension last March, was set to become a free agent in 2027.\n<\/p>\n

Hunter, 31, started every game over each of the last four seasons. He totaled 54 combined tackles, 15 sacks, three forced fumbles, three passes defensed and a fumble recovery last season. Hunter totaled a career-high 16.5 sacks over 17 starts in 2023, his final season with the Minnesota Vikings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The third-round pick by the Vikings in the 2015 NFL Draft logged at least 10.5 sacks over eight of his last nine full seasons. The five-time Pro Bowl selection missed 10 games in 2021 due to a torn pectoral muscle.<\/p>\n

With his new pact, Hunter is set to rank No. 4 among pass rushers in average salary, trailing only Micah Parsons, Aidan Hutchinson and T.J. Watt<\/a>. Cleveland Browns<\/a> defensive end Myles Garrett<\/a>, who earned Defensive Player of the Year honors two of the last three seasons, ranks fifth at $40 million.\n<\/p>\n

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\t\t Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold (L) embraces the Super Bowl MVP, running back Kenneth Walker III, after the Seahawks defeated the New England Patriots 29-13 to win Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on February 8, 2026. Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo<\/a>\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 6 (UPI) — The Houston Texans agreed to a one-year, $40.1 million contract extension with defensive end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13275,56,58,57,79,13445,35319,18140],"class_list":["post-193323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-texans","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-myles-garrett","tag-t-j-watt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}