{"id":801199,"date":"2026-08-03T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801199\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:38:09","slug":"jadeveon-clowney-chose-to-return-to-houston-over-chasing-money-it-was-a-really-easy-decision-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801199\/","title":{"rendered":"Jadeveon Clowney chose to return to Houston over chasing money: &#8216;It was a really easy decision&#8217; | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jadeveon Clowney chose <a node=\"[object Object]\" class=\"inline-block relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-network-jadeveon-clowney-returning-to-texans-who-drafted-him-no-1-overall-in-2014\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">to return to Houston<\/a>, where his NFL career started, eschewing more money for a chance to chase a ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like they got a good team and I can help contribute. It was a really easy decision,\u201d Clowney told <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" node=\"[object Object]\" class=\"inline-block relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/texans\/article\/jadeveon-clowney-texans-return-22370843.php\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Jonathan M. Alexander of the Houston Chronicle<\/a>. \u201cIt wasn&#8217;t about the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 draft, Clowney spent his first five seasons with the Texans, earning the only three Pro Bowl nods of his career. In 2019, he was traded during final cuts to the Seattle Seahawks. From there, he\u2019s become a gun for hire, playing for six clubs in seven seasons, including stops in Tennessee, Cleveland, Baltimore, Carolina and Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Clowney said it was a family decision to return to Houston. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve grown up and learned the game a lot more since leaving,\u201d Clowney said. \u201cI feel like I can help the younger guys. I&#8217;ve learned how to lead and what it takes to get to a Super Bowl. I feel like I can help this team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jadeveon Clowney chose to return to Houston, where his NFL career started, eschewing more money for a chance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6255,4058,91002,3,99,14594],"class_list":["post-801199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-houston-texans","tag-jadeveon-clowney","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-training-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}