Texans linebacker DeMeco Ryans announced Thursday that he's endowing a scholarship in his name at the University of Alabama, his alma mater, according to an NFL.com report. Ryans, who has started for the Texans since they selected him in the second round of the 2006 draft, pledged $300,000 for the scholarship, which will go to a Crimson Tide football player studying in the university's Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.