{"id":395893,"date":"2026-08-02T22:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395893\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:11:15","slug":"nfl-network-jadeveon-clowney-returning-to-texans-who-drafted-him-no-1-overall-in-2014-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395893\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Network: Jadeveon Clowney returning to Texans, who drafted him No. 1 overall in 2014 | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accustomed to one-year stops over the majority of the past seven seasons, Jadeveon Clowney is putting his first uniform back on.<\/p>\n<p>Clowney, a three-time Pro Bowl pass rusher, has agreed to terms to return to the Houston Texans, NFL Network Insiders Mike Garafolo and Ian Rapoport reported Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Texans spent the 2014 NFL Draft\u2019s No. 1 overall pick on Clowney, who played five years for the franchise. Since leaving Houston after the 2018 season, Clowney has played for six teams, but the Cleveland Browns (2021-22) were the only club he played on for more than one season. He visited recently with Cleveland and general manager Andrew Berry <a node=\"[object Object]\" class=\"inline-block relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/49489309\/gm-andrew-berry-hopeful-browns-reunite-jadeveon-clowney\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">expressed interest<\/a>, but Clowney chose to head back to the AFC South contender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clowney is coming off a 2025 campaign in which he led the Dallas Cowboys with 8.5 sacks. He will now add to a locked-and-loaded pass rush in Houston that features Will Anderson Jr. and Danielle Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>Following his five years with the Texans, Clowney joined the Seattle Seahawks (2019), Tennessee Titans (2020), Cleveland, the Baltimore Ravens (2023), Carolina Panthers (2024) and Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accustomed to one-year stops over the majority of the past seven seasons, Jadeveon Clowney is putting his first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9952,13275,56,58,57,18740,223,111303],"class_list":["post-395893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-jadeveon-clowney","tag-news","tag-training-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395893","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=395893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}