Texans free agents

[Nconroe]

Texans currently have around 28 mil in cap space to resign their own or other free agents. And overall in good shape to be flexible.

Ben Jones Center UFA
Shane Lechler Punter UFA
Brandon Brooks Guard UFA
Jared Crick Defensive End UFA
Chris Clark Offensive Tackle UFA
Chris Polk Running Back UFA
Nate Washington Wide Receiver UFA
Quintin Demps Safety UFA
Nick Novak Kicker UFA
T.J. Yates Quarterback UFA
Brandon Weeden Quarterback UFA

[painekiller]

Texans currently have around 28 mil in cap space to resign their own or other free agents. And overall in good shape to be flexible.

Ben Jones Center UFA
Shane Lechler Punter UFA
Brandon Brooks Guard UFA
Jared Crick Defensive End UFA
Chris Clark Offensive Tackle UFA
Chris Polk Running Back UFA
Nate Washington Wide Receiver UFA
Quintin Demps Safety UFA
Nick Novak Kicker UFA
T.J. Yates Quarterback UFA
Brandon Weeden Quarterback UFA

I bet that number goes up once they start cutting older vets, guys like Foster likely to be cut.

[painekiller]

I got the following names and numbers from this article (http://www.scout.com/nfl/texans/story/1634587-texans-cap-situation-entering-the-2016-season)

These are players that could be released and their associated salary cap savings & dead money.
Player 2016 Cap Charge 2016 Dead Money 2016 Cap Savings
Arian Foster $8,925,000 $2,300,000 $6,625,000
Rahim Moore $4,068,750 $2,000,000 $2,068,750
Garrett Graham $3,875,000 $750,000 $3,125,000
Brian Hoyer $5,015,625 $0 $5,015,625
Akeem Dent $5,562,500 $375,000 $2,187,500
Vince Wilfork $5,500,000 $1,500,000 $4,000,000
Cecil Shorts $3,421,875 $500,000 $2,921,875

As you can see the team could create a large amount of additional salary cap space by releasing some veterans. The team could easily create space to get the total available cap space up over $40,000,000.

Good read you should read the entire article.