Texans Announce Roster Cuts, Place QB Case Keenum On Season-Ending IR

Wyatt Grindley

August 27, 2024

The Texans announced their initial 53-player roster at Tuesday’s deadline and made several transactions in the process:

The following is a list of moves made by Houston to get their roster to 53 players:

Waived:

DT McTelvin Agim
LB Tarique Barnes
DE Solomon Byrd
WR Quintez Cephus
G Dieter Eiselen
DE Malik Fisher
DE Ali Gaye
FB Troy Hairston
DT Marcus Harris
WR Johnny Johnson III
CB Troy Pride
WR Ben Skowronek
RB J.J. Taylor
LB Max Tooley
T Kilian Zierer

Released:

FB Nick Bawden
FB Andrew Beck
QB Tim Boyle
WR Noah Brown
T Cameron Erving
CB Mike Ford
T Charlie Heck
CB C.J. Henderson
S Lonnie Johnson Jr.
CB Desmond King II
LB Jacob Phillips
G Chris Reed
CB D’Angelo Ross
T David Sharpe

Waived/Injured:

Placed on Injured Reserve/Designated to Return:

LB Christian Harris
DT Kurt Hinish

Placed on Reserve/Injured List:

S Brandon Hill
QB Case Keenum

Placed on Reserve/Non-Football Illness List:

DE Dylan Horton

Placed on Reserve/Suspended List:

DE Denico Autry

Keenum, 36, wound up signing on with the Texans as an undrafted free agent out of Houston back in 2013. He spent two years with the Texans before he was claimed off of waivers by the Rams.

He later returned to the Texans before being traded back to the Rams for a 2016 seventh-round pick. The Rams used a first-round tender on Keenum that paid him $3.635 million for the 2016 season.

After spending a year with the Vikings, Keenum agreed to a two-year, $36 million contract that included $25 million guaranteed with the Broncos in 2018. However, the Broncos later traded him to Washington after just one season.

Keenum signed a three-year, $18 million deal to be a backup with the Browns in 2020, yet was later traded to the Bills in exchange for a 2022 seventh-round draft pick. He was testing the market again when he signed a two-year, $6.2 million deal with the Texans.

In 2023, Keenum appeared in two games for the Texans and completed 64.2 percent of his passes for 291 yards, one touchdown, and three interceptions.