Texans Land G Evan Brown

In Houston, Brown will continue what has become an impressive career for the undrafted journeyman. After falling out of the 2018 NFL Draft, the SMU product signed with the Giants. After not seeing the field as a rookie sitting on the practice squad all year, Brown would see game time with four NFL teams over the next two years. In New York, the team that stashed him for his first year in the league only brought him up for one game, giving him his NFL debut in Week 10 of the 2019 season. The Dolphins made the move to sign him off the Giants’ taxi squad four weeks later, and Brown appeared in the final three games of the season.

After getting released by Miami in the offseason, Brown rebounded quickly, signing with the Browns within a week of getting cut. Extremely limited usage led the Dolphins to waive him to move him to their practice squad, where he remained for several weeks until the Lions signed him off their practice squad to play in the final two games of the 2020 season. In Detroit, Brown was named the backup center behind starter Frank Ragnow, and when Ragnow suffered a season-ending toe injury, Brown found himself in a starting role for the first time in his career, logging 12 starts in 16 games played. In his second season in Detroit, an injury to right guard Halapoulivaati Vaitai allowed Brown another full-time starting opportunity. He started 12 more games that year at right guard.

Those two seasons of starting as an injury replacement established Brown as a starting caliber lineman. When he signed in 2023 as a free agent with the Seahawks, Brown won the starting center job and started 16 games for Seattle. Continuing to build on his journeyman status, Brown signed with Arizona in 2024 and won the starting left guard job. After starting all 17 games of a season for the first time in his career, Brown was re-signed to stay in Arizona on a two-year, $11.5MM deal. Following a down 2025 campaign in which he missed six games due to injury, Brown was cut by the Cardinals and back on the free agent market.

The Texans keep Brown’s journeyman persona alive as they look for more consistency on the interior offensive line. The Texans had four consistent starters on the offensive line last year and were set to return all of them before trading Tytus Howard to Cleveland. Throughout the 2025 season, though, Houston failed to find a consistent starter at the left guard spot. Brown could compete to solidify that role on the line, while the team signed Braden Smith to, presumably, replace Howard.