Texans CB A.J. Bouye

[beastson]

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As of Wednesday, teams are allowed to use the franchise tag until March 1 and that will put attention on teams with key players heading for free agency in the next couple of weeks.

One team in that position is the Texans, who have cornerback A.J. Bouye on track to hit the open market after a strong 2016 season. As of now, though, it doesn’t look like they’ll be using it.

Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports that the Texans are unlikely to use their tag on Bouye or anyone else from the team. Doing so would set Bouye up to make over $14 million for the 2017 season and the Texans are projected to have in the neighborhood of $25 million of cap space to work with this offseason.

Bouye played in 15 games and made 11 starts for the Texans last year and led the team with 16 passes defensed. He had one regular season interception, added two more in the playoffs and will likely draw plenty of interest on the open market after showing well in coverage throughout the season.

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Make it happen.

[t96]

Seriously? Bradberry and Worley are our starting corners next year, guaranteed. If we were going to invest cap space in the CB position we would've just paid Josh. Likely we look at nickel backs and depth on the outside but we're not signing a starting corner.

[KDawg004]

One year wonder?

I'm not opposed to bringing in another CB to start opposite of Bradberry since I'm not sold on Worley but not at a high price tag that Bouye would likely command.

[KillerKat]

Yeah I'm not sold on Worley. Would like a better starter opposite Bradberry.

[t96]

I mean, if somebody better than Worley falls into our laps late in the draft, UDFA or some back end free agent, then by all means I'm thrilled about that. But Worley fits what we do, improved tremendously over the course of last year and will likely be better than anyone we bring in without paying a boatload to. Get ready to see him next year, and if he continues to improve, for the next 3 years along with Bradberry. Hoping to get Captain to shore up the nickel spot.

[Ace_Aladdin]

I think this guy can play the nickel, I heard his name all season long  on Texans's Defense. 

[t96]

6 minutes ago, sanjay_rajput said:

I think this guy can play the nickel, I heard his name all season long  on Texans's Defense. 

He can and he's a good player but you don't pay a nickel corner north of $12M/year...

[jumpman910]

So we aren't going to let Worley improve with him being almost 1.5 years younger than Bradberry? If a better option comes up cool, but don't overpay for it. Just let him keep improving. 

[TylerVagyler]

Bouye is only 25 so giving him a big contract makes more sense than giving one to Norman.

I doubt we'd be the team to pay up but wouldn't be mad if we did.

[LinvilleGorge]

I'm not sold on Worley either, but I don't want to dump big cao space into another starting CB with massively glaring holes at OT, DE, and safety.

[RumHam]

Wanna win? Open the checkbook. Not to mention teams will have film on both Worley and Bradberry so they'll be more exposed. We need a veteran corner.

[bobcat91]

The best thing we can do to improve the cb play is bring in a hammer at SS and get a pass rushing DE.

[PantherWake]

Y'all think we have unlimited cap with all the moves y'all want us to make already lol

[Mr. Miagi]

Miami bound