The Houston Texans signed Robert Woods this offseason to bring a veteran presence to the locker room.

Woods sees similarities between his new club and the Los Angeles Rams team he joined in 2017. At the time, the Rams were coming off a 4-12 season and in their first year under Sean McVay.

The Texans went 3-13-1 last year and they have a new head coach in DeMeco Ryans.

"I think a lot of hungry players, hungry coaches," Woods said. "I feel like this is a similar situation to when I came to L.A. with a young McVay. Some say it was a rebuild. I feel like it was just a team buying into your coach, believing in the coach, believing in the system, and I think coach Ryans has that here. Got a lot of young players buying into this defense, into this culture, and we can change this environment."

Jadeveon Clowney is open to a reunion with the Houston Texans.

The defensive end is a free agent after spending the past two seasons with the Cleveland Browns. The Texans selected Clowney with the No. 1 pick in the 2014 NFL draft

"It would be nice," Clowney said in an interview with KRIV-TV.

"All my family is here. Friends here. The guys I work out with can help me take care of my body a lot better being right up under them. ... You never know. You never know what will happen. You never know what's in front of you. I see what they've got here. They're putting the pieces together. I'm a big fan of their new head coach [DeMeco Ryans]."

The Houston Texans have reached an agreement on a three-year, $36 million contract extension with guard Shaq Mason, according to sources.

Mason, 29, received a $10 million signing bonus.

Houston acquired Mason from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in March for a sixth-round draft pick.

Houston Texans owner Cal McNair says that neither he nor his wife, Hannah, forced his team's front office to draft Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud.

"Hannah and I don't make the picks. We'll make it clear there," McNair said during the 20th annual Houston Texans Charity Golf Classic.

"We have a great group of scouts led by Nick [Caserio] and James Lippert, and they did a lot of work on the draft board, and then they followed that on draft day, and they moved up when they saw the value was there and moved back."

There was speculation that the McNairs forced Caserio, the team's general manager, and coach DeMeco Ryans to select a quarterback since the Texans' quarterbacks posted the worst QBR in the NFL last season.