HOUSTON – The Texans have restructured veteran offensive lineman Tytus Howard’s $56 million contract again, lowering his base salary to $1.17 million and converting the original scheduled salary into a $14.33 million signing bonus, per a league source.
His new salary-cap figure for 2025 is $11.581 million, down from $23.045 million. The deal creates a salary-cap savings of $11.64 million.
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Howard is due $16 million this year overall, including the signing bonus and base salary and a per game active roster bonus weekly of $29,411, up to $500,000.
Howard now has another voidable year in 2029 added to his original deal of $30 million.
Howard was due a $14 million base salary, in 2024 and the Texans converted $12.875 million of that figure into a fully guaranteed signing bonus. His new base salary is became the minimum $1.125 million, and his salary cap figure is down from $18.705 million to $8.405 million. The base salary is fully guaranteed for skill, injury and salary cap.
The Texans added voidable years in 2027 and 2028 for Howard of $30 million each year.
The Texans recently restructured veteran guard Shaq Mason’s three-year, $36 million deal by converting his salary into a $8.04 million signing bonus to create $6.4 million in salary cap space.
The two moves combined free up $16.7 million in salary cap space.
The former first-round draft pick signed a three-year, $56 million deal that includes $36.5 million guaranteed, a $18 million signing bonus and an $18.6 million average that makes him one of the highest paid offensive linemen in the game last summer.
The deal was negotiated by Malki Kawa and Ethan Lock of First Round Management and Texans general manager Nick Caserio.
Aaron Wilson is a Texans and NFL reporter for KPRC 2 and click2houston.com.
