Texans signed EDGE Danielle Hunter to a one-year, $35.6 million contract.
NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reports Hunter is now the NFL’s second-highest paid defensive end and will make $32 million this season, a $12.5 million bump from his previous contract. His deal becomes a two-year, $55.1 million agreement with $54.1 million guaranteed. Hunter initially signed a two-year deal with the Texans last offseason and now gets one more season in Houston with a pay bump after tallying 12 sacks and a Pro Bowl in 2024. With Will Anderson opposite Hunter, the Texans keep a menacing pass rush through 2026. This sets another price point in an expensive edge market with pass rushers like Trey Hendrickson and Micah Parsons next to cash in.
Ya but once he signs will be another increase …there is always an increase in the market and if we are aware so is everyone else in the NFL. It will happen for sure and we will all be happy when it does.
You would think that but the Bengals and Cowboys are really bad for leaving it a year or more before extending players and it costs them big time on their cap. The Bengals could have had Higgins and Chase at lower numbers if they had done those deals a year earlier, and the same with the Cowboys with Lamb and Parsons.
I am not worried about the Hutch Extension at all!
By the time the ~$40m AAV kicks in, and you average out the contract.
Its a 9.42% cap hit.
Equivalent to a 26.32M cap hit in 2025
Not necessarily.
He is presenting the options.
There are definite advantages of getting money (even a little less) sooner.
Holmes has given each of HIS players top of market extensions so that there is little reason to wait.
Hutch is going to get between $36M -$40M AAV now or a year from now.
Might as well do it now.
yeah… If I were Hutch and my agent said that to me…
I would fire him on the spot.
He should absolutely get the deal done now.
He would have $100 million guaranteed in the bank.
If he were to continue to play as he has done so far…
it wouldn’t be tough to ask for a re-worked deal after a few years… but he has had 2 lower leg fractures already…
so the time is now to cash in on money that sets his family up for generations.
I love everything about Hutch except those two broken leg bones he needs to prove he’s over IMHO to pay him as if that injury never happend. Well… it did, we do have a 5th year option and the tag and he’s a homer. There are a lot of valid reasons not to rush. So I fully expect the news tomorrow that BH has made him the highest paid non QB in the NFL.
Yeah, I saw the best pass rusher in the league who was about to break records and it would depend on the asking price. But I hate that injury. We all saw what happened to Houston on this very team.
It’s not just the broken bones. It’s being out of football that long. It’s not putting stress on all those ligaments and joints for so long, then at different weights. I know theoretically, being rehabbed by some of the finest specialists in the world, the phase in “should” be so gradual that you build back to that 100%. But there are a bunch of ifs and buts around that process. I’m all in on seeing what he does this year and if he’s still worth a boatload, you give it to him. But if he’s not maybe you still want him but get him at less than a boatload, because maybe you are going to invest in someone else to get the on-field production you are still missing.
I’ve actually snagged my tib/fib playing football. To say it’s better than ligaments is presumptuous. Many torn ACLs have returned to double digit sacks, HOF qb careers or 1500 yard rushing seasons. Which players with two cleanly broken bone in a leg have thrived afterward,
Good post. I was a little surprised to learn just how few (if any) examples there are from people coming back from clean tib/fib breaks, and whether or not they come back to their previous level. It seems there is little evidence that would predict he’ll be just as effective as he previously was when he first comes back. Hmmm.
