The Texans are currently in the haze of limbo. Their franchise quarterback asked for a trade, and has since been clobbered by sexual assault allegations. After finishing 4-12, and set to have the third overall pick, they were without a first or second round draft pick in the previous NFL Draft. It’s a rebuilding team without draft capital, and without cornerstone players.
To battle this, the Texans traded up in the draft twice to select players, instead of horde spins at the wheel to correct a roster missing talent throughout it, and they signed a horde of veteran free agents, but wait there’s more, in order to do so, they restructured their existing bad contracts to create cap space to do so.