{"id":196837,"date":"2026-03-09T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196837\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:08:08","slug":"texans-strike-two-year-deal-to-hold-onto-sheldon-rankins-with-12-million-total-guaranteed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196837\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans strike two-year deal to hold onto Sheldon Rankins with $12 million total guaranteed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 The Texans are running it back with veteran defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins, holding onto a key piece of their top-ranked defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Rankins is staying in Houston on a two-year contract that includes $12 million total guaranteed, a portion of a larger overall structure, per league sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The deal negotiated by Matthew Pope and Bill Johnson allows Rankins to stay with the Texans and continue to provide a disruptive interior presence\u2019. This deal will make Texans star defensive end Will Anderson Jr. extremely happy. Anderson and Rankins are good friends and the former New Orleans Saints first-round draft pick has mentored Anderson since his rookie year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Rankins, 31, had a resurgent year in his return to the Texans last year after dealing with meningitis during his one season with the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He played in every game during a healthy season, recording 35 tackles, 44 pressures, three sacks, five tackles for losses and scored two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Aaron Wilson is a Texans and NFL reporter for KPRC 2 and click2houston.com<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 The Texans are running it back with veteran defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins, holding onto a key&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[66156,56,58,57,79,80,52639],"class_list":["post-196837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-free-agency","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-texans","tag-nfl","tag-sheldon-rankins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196837","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=196837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}