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Texans’ Decision to Trade Five-Time Pro Bowler Laremy Tunsil Left NFL Experts Confused
The Houston Texans traded Pro Bowl offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil to the Washington Commanders on Monday and plenty of people are confused by the deal.
Tunsil is a five-time Pro Bowler who was by far Houston's best offensive lineman. In addition to that, the rest of the line left a lot to be desired last season. The Texans allowed the fifth-highest pressure rate and the eighth-highest sack rate all while giving up the third-most sacks. Meanwhile, over the last three seasons Tunsil has the second-best pressure rate among starting offensive tackles behind Tristan Wirfs.
Plenty of people around the NFL couldn't believe the deal when it was announced.
Trading your franchise LT with your star rookie contract QB entering his third season (and when the majority of the rest of your OL was brutal) is a perplexing choice by the Texans
— Chris Trapasso 🏈 (@ChrisTrapasso) March 10, 2025
— Washington Commanders (@Commanders) March 10, 2025
Texans allowed the 5th highest pressure rate, the 8th highest sack rate, 3rd most sacks and the 7th *fastest* Time To Pressure...
— Lindsay Rhodes (@lindsay_rhodes) March 10, 2025
and have now traded away their LT Laremy Tunsil. 👀
Pressure rate allowed over the last three seasons among all starting offensive tackles.
— Brett Kollmann (@BrettKollmann) March 10, 2025
1st - Tristan Wirfs (2.2%)
2nd - Laremy Tunsil (3.1%)
But sure yeah he's super replaceable. Great trade.
Man, X is broken worse than I thought. Now it’s telling me the Texans traded Laremy Tunsil.
— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) March 10, 2025
Best explanation is Nick Caserio got Mozilla Firefox as his search engine and just saw the Laremy Tunsil gas mask video for the first time
— Carter Donnick (@CDonnick1) March 10, 2025
Tunsil is owed about $42 million over the next two seasons and will likely be getting a new contract before the 2025 campaign. The 30-year-old will want to be paid like one of the best tackles in the NFL, but he's certainly earned that.
The Texans have to have other moves planned to address their porous line, otherwise this trade makes no sense.
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Ryan Phillips is a senior writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He has worked in digital media since 2009, spending eight years at The Big Lead before joining SI in 2024. Phillips also co-hosts The Assembly Call Podcast about Indiana Hoosiers basketball and previously worked at Bleacher Report. He is a proud San Diego native and a graduate of Indiana University’s journalism program.