Highest paid tackle
Texans lock up left tackle Tunsil with $22 million per year deal
Apr 24, 2020, 2:22 pm
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The Houston Texans did not have a first round pick on Thursday, but they made news Friday when they locked up left tackle Laremy Tunsil to a three-year contract extension.
Tunsil, acquired from the Miami Dolphins prior to last season for two No. 1 picks and a No. 2, becomes the highest paid tackle in football. He made his first Pro Bowl last season.
According to the Houston Chronicle's Aaron Wilson, the extension is worth $57 million guaranteed with a $13 million signing bonus, and averages $22 million per season. The deal means Tunsil would be under contract through 2023. Tunsil is slated to make $10.5 million this year.
Tunsil helped solidify what had been an abysmal offensive line before last season. Paired with second-year right tackle Titus Howard - who was playing terrific football before his injury - the Texans have the makings of. nice pair of bookends for the immediate future. Tunsil was a false start machine last year, but other than that he played at a high level.
Next up could be extensions for linebackers Zack Cunningham or quarterback Deshaun Watson. But the Tunsil signing was critical. If he walked after next season considering the assets they gave up, it would have been a disaster. But the Texans avoided that with Friday's deal.
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Junior Caminero hit two of Tampa Bay’s season-high five home runs and Zack Littell threw his first career complete game as the Rays sailed to a 16-3 victory over the Houston Astros Saturday.
Littell (5-5) allowed 10 hits and three runs with six strikeouts. The Rays have won each of Littell’s last seven starts and he’s 5-0 in that stretch.
The 21-year-old Caminero had a career-best four hits and drove in five runs. The performance comes after he set a career high with six RBIs on Thursday in a 13-3 victory.
Yandy Díaz, Jake Mangum and Josh Lowe also homered for the Rays, who had a season-best 18 hits and whose 16 runs tied a season high.
Díaz had a two-run shot in the third and Caminero put the Rays in front 4-3 with his solo homer to the seats in left field to start the fourth.
Tampa Bay led by 2 when Brandon Lowe extended his hitting streak to a career-long 13 games with an RBI double with one out in the sixth. Caminero followed with double to make it 7-3.
Mangum, a rookie who came off the injured list Friday, smacked a ball to the bullpen in right-center for his first career homer to push the lead to 9-3 and a two-run shot by Josh Lowe left Tampa Bay up 11-3.
There were two on with one out in the eighth when Caminero went deep again to make it 14-3 and give him his first career multi-homer game.
La Tormenta strikes early.#BuiltForThis pic.twitter.com/E497cfEkbO
— Houston Astros (@astros) May 31, 2025
Jeremy Peña homered twice for the Astros, who fell to 1-2 in this four-game series.
HE'S FEELIN' IT!#BuiltForThis pic.twitter.com/IolXlk8nPw
— Houston Astros (@astros) May 31, 2025
Houston starter Colton Gordon (0-1) allowed five hits and four runs in five innings.
Key moment
Tampa Bay’s six-run seventh inning made it 11-3.
Key stat
Tampa Bay allowed four or fewer runs for the 12th straight game, which is the team’s longest streak since a 16-game stretch to end the 2021 season.
Up next
Tampa Bay’s Taj Bradley (4-4, 4.38 ERA) opposes RHP Hunter Brown (7-3, 2.00) when the series concludes Sunday.