The Texans have a new safety! Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.
According to multiple reports, the Houston Texans are trading guard Kenyon Green and a 5th round pick (2026)to the Eagles for safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson and a 6th round pick (2026).
Green struggled with poor play and injuries since being drafted by the Texans in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft. He is a free agent after the 2025 season and will carrying a cap hit of $2,880,464.
Gardner-Johnson (age 27) has two-years remaining on his deal for $19.1 million total ($8.5M 2025, $11.5M 2026), per Aaron Wilson. Texans Cap is reporting that Gardner-Johnson's initial salary cap charge will be $3.736 million.
The newly acquired Texan recorded 6 interceptions last season with 1 defensive touchdown for the Super Bowl champion Eagles.
The Texans currently have Jalen Pitre (recovering from torn pec injury, FA in 2026), Jimmie Ward (recovering from foot injury), Calen Bullock, and now Gardner-Johnson at the safety and/or nickel corner position.
Texans GM Nick Caserio is making waves this offseason!
ESPN Houston's Del Olaleye weighs in on the move in the video above.
José Ramírez homered for a third straight game, Angel Martínez also went deep and the Cleveland Guardians got a 4-2 win over the Houston Astros on Wednesday night to complete a three-game sweep.
It’s the first time the Guardians, who entered the series on a 10-game skid, have won three in a row since a four-game winning streak from May 21-24.
Slade Cecconi (4-4) allowed five hits and two runs with a career-best nine strikeouts in 7-plus innings for the win. Paul Sewald pitched a scoreless ninth for his second save.
Martínez homered for a second straight at-bat with his shot to the Crawford Boxes with one out in the first inning. His grand slam with two outs in the 10th inning Tuesday night lifted Cleveland to a 10-6 win.
Four pitches after Martinez’s homer Wednesday, Ramírez also connected off Brandon Walter (1-2) to make it 2-0. Walter settled in after that, retiring the next 17 batters, with seven strikeouts before Bennett Sousa took over to start the seventh.
Ramírez and Carlos Santana hit consecutive singles with no outs in the inning before David Fry walked to load the bases. Johnathan Rodríguez then singled to score two and extend the lead to 4-0.
The Astros had managed just four singles when Taylor Trammell walked with no outs in the eighth and scored on a double by Mauricio Dubón that cut the lead to 4-1. There were two outs in the inning when Jose Altuve’s RBI double made it 4-2.
The AL West-leading Astros went 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position to cap this disappointing series which came after they swept the Dodgers in Los Angeles over the weekend.
Key moment
Martínez and Ramírez had back-to-back homers in the first.
Key stat
Ramírez, who dropped out of next week’s All-Star game Wednesday to rehab a nagging Achilles injury, has four homers and seven RBIs this month.
Up next
LHP Logan Allen (5-7, 4.07 ERA) will start for Cleveland in the opener of a four-game series against the Chicago White Sox Thursday night. The Astros are off Thursday and haven’t announced their rotation for their weekend series against the Rangers.
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