Jadeveon Clowney’s second stint in Houston may already be headed toward another exit.
According to Adam Schefter, the Texans defensive end is drawing trade interest as the deadline approaches. Clowney came back to Houston on a one-year deal this summer and has worked as a rotational pass rusher, but the Texans are also sitting on enough depth at defensive end that they could move him and keep pressing forward.
Houston is 2-5 and still trying to salvage the season, but Clowney’s name is now in the trade conversation anyway. The veteran edge rusher, 33, has been here before. He was the No. 1 overall pick by the Texans in 2014, and his first run in Houston included the final year of his four-year, $22.272 million deal, followed by the fifth-year option that paid him $12.306 million in 2018.
The Texans then franchised Clowney and traded him to the Seahawks at the start of the 2019 regular season. From there, his career turned into a tour of one-year stops.
He didn’t sign with Tennessee until September 2020, when he agreed to a deal worth up to $15 million. After that came one-year contracts with the Browns in 2021 and 2022, with the second worth $11 million, then a 2023 deal with the Ravens, and later a two-year contract with the Panthers.
Carolina released him after one season.
Clowney then landed with the Cowboys on a one-year contract worth $3.5 million that can rise to as much as $6 million with incentives for the 2025 season.
Through five games in 2026 with Houston, Clowney has posted nine total tackles, two tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks and one pass deflection.
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