The Texans announced Wednesday they have officially placed DE J.J. Watt on injured reserve and re-signed CB Briean Boddy-Calhoun to the active roster.
Watt tore his pectoral muscle in Sunday’s game and needed to have season-ending surgery. He should be recovered in time for the 2020 season.
Watt, 30, is a former first-round pick of the Texans back in 2011. He’s in the fifth year of his eight-year, $108.88 million contract that includes $51.8 million guaranteed and stands to make base salaries of $13 million and $13.5 million over the next two years of the deal.
In 2019, Watt appeared in eight games and recorded 24 tackles, four sacks, a forced fumble, two recoveries and two pass defenses.
Boddy-Calhoun, 26, wound up signing on with the Jaguars as an undrafted free agent out of Minnesota back in 2016. He was waived a few months later and claimed off of waivers by the Browns.
Cleveland declined to tender Boddy-Calhoun a restricted contract, which allowed him to become an unrestricted free agent. He signed a one-year deal with the Texans back in March but was among their final roster cuts coming out of the preseason.
Since becoming a free agent, Boddy-Calhoun has worked out or visited with the Saints, Cardinals, Vikings, Eagles and Jaguars but left each meeting without a contract.
In 2018, Boddy-Calhoun appeared in all 16 games for the Browns and recorded 56 tackles, no interceptions, a forced fumble, and two pass defenses.
We have him featured in our Top 50 Available Free Agents List.
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