NFL | Sources say the Texans are giving Mixon a 3-year, $27 million extension.

HOUSTON — Two days after buying and selling working again Joe Mixon, the Houston Texans gave him a three-year, $27 million contract extension, together with $13 million assured, sources informed ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

On Tuesday, Texas traded a 2024 seventh-round choose to the Cincinnati Bengals for Mixon, who was anticipated to be launched after the Bengals signed free agent working again Zach Moss on Monday.

The Texans hope Mixon, who rushed for 1,034 yards and 9 touchdowns, can bolster their 2023 speeding assault that ranks simply twenty eighth in yards per recreation (92.7).

Mixon mentioned the commerce was “a shock” to him.

“I’ve to say it was positively surprising,” Mixon mentioned Thursday. “It took me 24 to 48 hours to recover from that ache. It took some time and I nonetheless really feel emotional about it. However it is a place the place I can really feel prefer it’s house for me without end. “

The previous 2017 second-round choose spent seven seasons in Cincinnati and was a Professional Bowl choice in 2021. He was a member of the Bengals workforce that misplaced to the Los Angeles Rams in Tremendous Bowl LVI.

Mixon, 27, rushed for six,412 yards throughout his Bengals profession, averaged 4.1 yards per carry and scored 49 touchdowns. He additionally caught 283 passes for two,139 yards and 14 TDs.

Nonetheless, Mixon is raring for a recent begin in Houston and hopes to search out comparable success in Cincinnati.

“We purchased the town of Cincinnati, we revitalized it, and I plan to convey the identical factor right here,” Mixon mentioned. “[Texan] The followers, I am certain — they obtained a style of it final 12 months, however I really feel like with what we have gotten, I believe it may be a terrific factor. Like I mentioned, I am excited to be right here, really feel the necessity, and I am unable to wait to profit from my alternative when my quantity known as.”

One motive Mixon is worked up about staying in Houston is 2023 offensive rookie of the 12 months quarterback C.J. Stroud, who led the NFL in touchdown-to-interception ratio (23:5) and 274 yards per recreation. Did you cross?

“Yeah, properly, Chief Justice’s an outstanding participant. Clearly, he was rookie of the 12 months, and that is no massive deal,” Mixon mentioned. “…with the quarterback we have got in CJ, like I mentioned, he is phenomenal, and I do know for a truth he’ll make the subsequent leap, and that is by way of them successful the playoffs. However clearly we take them one recreation at a time.”