As the NFL has already entered Week 12, many teams have lost players to injury. The most recent player to enter the injury list is Houston Texans star Tytus Howard. The Texans have already been miserable in case of injuries. Now, there is reportedly a bad injury update about their offensive tackle despite his recent contract extension.
NFL reporter Dov Kleiman recently took to X to share the injury report of Tytus Howard. According to him, the 6-foot-5 player is all set to miss the entire rest of this NFL season. The star player reportedly went through imaging scans on November 27 and needs to undergo knee surgery. Now, it seems like the reports aren’t good enough for Howard to continue this season.
Report: #Texans lost OT Tytus Howard for the season with a knee injury, per @RapSheet
Howard signed a 3-year, $56 million contract this offseason. pic.twitter.com/4nzHxrct5i
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) November 29, 2023
Born in May 1996, Tytus Howard signed a 3-year contract extension with the Texans this off-season itself. It was a huge $56 million contract including a signing bonus of $18 million. The deal also had $36 million guaranteed, offering him an average yearly salary of $18.6 million. Before this, he had signed his rookie contract with the team worth $12.2 million for 4 years. Howard has earned $33.1 million in the NFL till now and is expected to make a huge $81.6 million by 2026.
Howard has been unfortunate since the beginning of this NFL season. The 27-year-old player earlier suffered a broken hand injury this year. It made Tytus Howard miss the 1st month of this season. Now, his knee injury has proved to be even worse, leading to his probable season exit.
Howard has undoubtedly been a valuable part of the Texans ever since he joined CJ Stroud’s team in 2019. Now, it’ll be interesting to see if the news about him missing this season is true or not.
What happened to Tytus Howard?
The Houston Texans recently locked horns with the Jacksonville Jaguars on October 26 at NRG Stadium. It was Trevor Lawrence‘s Jaguars who ended up winning the game by 24-21. With that loss, the Texans deteriorated to 6-5 this season. However, what affected the team more was Tytus Howard suffering from a knee injury.
Howard left the game when there were 20 seconds left to the end of the 1st quarter of the match. The star player fell to the ground after which the medical team took him out of the field. After that, offensive tackle Juice Scruggs came in to replace him in that game. At that time, people weren’t sure about the exact status of his knee.
Now, reports suggest that Tytus Howard will undergo a knee surgery that will take him the whole season to recover. If this news is true, it might affect the Texans negatively this season. The team has already been struggling this NFL season. However, without Howard, they might end up with an even bigger problem.