The Seattle Seahawks have acquired Duane Brown from the Houston Texans for Jeremy Lane, a 2018 fifth round pick and a 2019 second round pick.

John Schneider said the Seahawks are inheriting Brown's current deal from Houston, which runs through 2018, and that there is no new deal beyond that. Brown is owed about $5 million for the remainder of this season and is scheduled to make $9.75 million in 2018.

Schneider said the Seahawks had been talking with the Texans about Brown since Seattle lost starting left tackle George Fant to a torn ACL in the preseason.

The Seattle Seahawks and Houston Texans have discussed a trade centered on Duane Brown.

The Seahawks have a need at left tackle and Brown recently ended his holdout.

Brown is one of the leaders in the Texans' locker room.

The Houston Texans considered staging a walkout on Friday following the publication of comments from Bob McNair.

During a meeting between owners and players about the ongoing protest issue, McNair said "we can't have the inmates running the prison."

McNair has owned the Texans since its inception.

DeAndre Hopkins was absent from practice on Friday due to McNair's comments, according to James Palmer.

Bob McNair issued a public apology Friday for saying "We can't have the inmates running the prison" during last week's meeting between a group of owners and players about ongoing protests during the national anthem.

"I regret that I used that expression," McNair said in a statement. "I never meant to offend anyone and I was not referring to our players. I used a figure of speech that was never intended to be taken literally. I would never characterize our players or our league that way and I apologize to anyone who was offended by it."

After the owners finished talking, NFL executive Troy Vincent said he was offended by McNair's characterization of the players as "inmates." Vincent said that in all his years of playing in the NFL -- during which, he said, he had been called every name in the book, including the N-word -- he never felt like an "inmate."

McNair contributed more money to the combination of the Donald Trump campaign, aligned Super PACs and inaugural committee than any other NFL owner.

Duane Brown has reported back to the Houston Texans to end his holdout.

Brown's lost nearly $553,000 per week in game checks.

Chris Clark has been starting in Brown's place at left tackle.

J.J. Watt has suffered a tibial plateau fracture in his left leg and is expected to miss the remainder of the 2017 season.

Watt was injured on the first drive of the game and spotted exiting the X-ray room on crutches before leaving the stadium in an ambulance.

Watt was limited to just four games in 2016 due to his back surgery in September of 2016.

Watt was the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year in 2012, 2014 and 2015.