{"id":395912,"date":"2026-08-02T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395912\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:35:09","slug":"houston-texans-sign-former-top-overall-draft-pick-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395912\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Texans sign former top overall draft pick in free agency."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s funny how things work sometimes, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Houston Texans are bringing back a blast from the past, signing defensive end Jadeveon Clowney to a deal to join an already stacked defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Clowney, after being traded to the Seahawks in 2019, has been something akin to a ronin defensive end, making stops with several teams on short-term deals; moving from the Seahawks to the BESFs, the Browns, the Ravens, the Panthers, and, most recently, the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As a Cowboy, Clowney registered 8.5 sacks over 13 games, one shy of his career high. The coaching staff for the Cowboys also had nothing but positive things to say about his time with the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Clowney\u2019s addition to a line that already boasts Will Anderson Jr. and Danielle Hunter is going to make the Texans defense that much stronger; a defense that was already a nightmare for other teams to handle just got so much more dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s funny how things work sometimes, isn\u2019t it? The Houston Texans are bringing back a blast from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,35446],"class_list":["post-395912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-texans-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395912","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=395912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}