{"id":199503,"date":"2026-03-11T06:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199503\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:33:16","slug":"special-teams-ace-jake-hummel-to-sign-with-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199503\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Teams Ace Jake Hummel to Sign With Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hummel spent last season with the Ravens as a special teams mainstay and saw limited action in the linebacker rotation. He appeared in all 17 games, playing 372 snaps on special teams and 33 snaps on defense.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all his defensive action occurred in Week 4 against the Kansas City Chiefs, when Hummel played 28 snaps after Roquan Smith left the game with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Hummel&#8217;s biggest play of the 2025 season occurred Week 2 against the Cleveland Browns, when his blocked punt set up a Ravens touchdown during a 41-17 victory. The 27-year-old Hummel spent his first three seasons with the Los Angeles Rams and has 49 tackles and two blocked punts during his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hummel spent last season with the Ravens as a special teams mainstay and saw limited action in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[78760,78759,78761,66156,9488,78762,56,58,57,78758,78763],"class_list":{"0":"post-199503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-2026-free-agency","9":"tag-2026-free-agency-tracker","10":"tag-clifton-brown","11":"tag-free-agency","12":"tag-general","13":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-headlines","16":"tag-houston-news","17":"tag-inline-news","18":"tag-jacob-hummel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199503","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=199503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}