Training camp 2016 news

[Arky]

Video - Hopkins on practicing against the Saints TRT = 2:46

Video - Osweiler on practicing against the Saints TRT = 1:53

Video - O'Brien on practicing against the Saints TRT = 6:01

[Arky]

Thought I'd put the cuts in here.....

The grapevine says:

OT Arturo Uzadivnis
OLB Carlos Thompson
WR Josh Lenz
DT Ra'Zahn Howard
OL Matt Pierson
ILB Ryan Langford

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John McClain @McClain_on_NFL

Texans also cut WR Tevin Jones.

S Curtis Drummond, K Ka'imi Fairbairn, C Nick Martin go to IR.

S Lonnie Ballentine to PUP.

[Arky]

Officially (from the Texans website):

08/30/2016 The Houston Texans have waived the following seven players from the active roster: DT Ra'Zahn Howard, WR Tevin Jones, ILB Ryan Langford, WR Josh Lenz, T Matt Pierson, OLB Carlos Thompson, T Arturo Uzdavinis

08/30/2016 The Houston Texans have placed the following players on Reserve/Injured: S Kurtis Drummond, K Ka'imi Fairbairn, C Nick Martin

08/30/2016 The Houston Texans have placed the following player on Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform: S Lonnie Ballentine

08/30/2016 The Houston Texans have waived the following player from the active roster with an injury settlement: DE Jeoffrey Pagan

08/30/2016 The Houston Texans have waived/injured the following two players: OLB Gerald Rivers, CB Duke Thomas

[Nconroe]

The WR Lentz looked pretty good, I guess some team will claim him or he will get on practice squad.

Seems to me Texans depth is improving, at least at WR and CB.

22 more cuts coming by Saturday.

[Nconroe]

Looks like cuts to 53 have begun. Tough choices,

http://www.scout.com/nfl/texans/stor...-53-man-roster


This lists 17, need to get to 22

http://www.battleredblog.com/2016/9/...ake-the-53-man

Now at 19
http://www.battleredblog.com/2016/9/...ake-the-53-man

This is reasonable review of 53 man roster plus three. Are trades being considered?
http://www.battleredblog.com/2016/9/...s-the-final-53

[Arky]

Originally Posted by Nconroe

Looks like cuts to 53 have begun. Tough choices,

http://www.scout.com/nfl/texans/stor...-53-man-roster

The Unofficial Cuts:

WR, Quenton Bundrage

WR, Wendall Williams

RB, Kenny Hilliard

TE, Anthony Denham

TE, Eric Tomlinson

OT, Jeff Adams

C, Dalton Freeman

OT, Andrew McDonald

OG, Karim Barton

OG, Chad Slade

DE, Ufomba Kamalu

ILB, Shakeel Rashad

OLB, Eric Lee

OLB, Tony Washington

CB, Robert Nelson

CB, Terrance Mitchell

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Several of these guys will probably be offered PS contracts....

610 Radio speculating Akeem Hunt and OLB Brennan Scarlett might be in....

[HPF Bob]

Less likely to be trades than players added to IR lists.

[HPF Bob]

pssst: Here's an easy cut - Cecil Shorts. We've got five better receivers than Sir Drop-a-holic. Save us $1.6 million in cap space. Do it, Bill.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

pssst: Here's an easy cut - Cecil Shorts. We've got five better receivers than Sir Drop-a-holic. Save us $1.6 million in cap space. Do it, Bill.

Outstanding hot take. Don't stay away, Bob, we need your insight.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

pssst: Here's an easy cut - Cecil Shorts. We've got five better receivers than Sir Drop-a-holic. Save us $1.6 million in cap space. Do it, Bill.

Aren't you the guy who said we didn't need to draft a WR because we had Cecil Shorts?

[Nconroe]

Sounds like shorts and Hunt are being released.

Maybe one more by 3 pm.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...-cecil-shorts/

[Arky]

Officially (from the Texans website):

09/03/2016 The Houston Texans have waived the following 18 players from the active roster: T Jeff Adams, G Karim Barton, WR Quenton Bundrage, ILB Reshard Cliett, TE Anthony Denham, DE Brandon Dunn, RB Kenny Hilliard, RB Akeem Hunt, DE Ufomba Kamalu, OLB Eric Lee, T Andrew McDonald, CB Terrance Mitchell, CB Robert Nelson, DE Dan Pettinato, ILB Shakeel Rashad, G Chad Slade, TE Eric Tomlinson, WR Wendall Williams

09/03/2016 The Houston Texans have waived/injured the following two players from the active roster: C Dalton Freeman, OLB Tony Washington Jr.

09/03/2016 The Houston Texans have released the following two players from the active roster: S Antonio Allen, WR Cecil Shorts III

09/03/2016 The Houston Texans have moved the following two players from the Active/Physically Unable to Perform list to the active roster: T Duane Brown, DE J.J. Watt

That last entry is some good news....

[chuck]

I'm very disappointed that they're keeping Blue over Hunt. Blue had better be a special teams terror.

[Warren]

My guess is that they considered Hunt and Ervin to be too similar skill set-wise to keep both, and they decided Ervin has the higher upside. Blue is the classic "need three yards and he'll get you three, need five yards and he'll get you three" back.

[Nconroe]

I hadn't counted, but seems Texans kept a lot of youth and speed over experience.

[Nconroe]

OK , I'm probably overconfident right now .

I saw we play 15 no. 1 picks at QB this year.

And AFC South supposed to be improved this year.

I think team better than last year so 10-6 could be achievable.

Saw this prediction Texans would be 8-8.

http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles...-before-week-1

[Arky]

Official practice squad (so far):

Quenton Bundrage
Akeem Hunt
Ufomba Kamalu
Eric Lee
Robert Nelson
Shakeel Rashad
Chad Slade
Eric Tomlinson

[Arky]

Two more additions to the practice squad:

09/05/2016 The Houston Texans signed the following two players to the practice squad: T Joseph Cheek, DE Brandon Dunn