Here’s what they got."It’s NFL Conference Championship week Deshaun Watson Jersey , and I haven’t given a speck of thought to the Houston Texans’ upcoming offseason. There will be months of it. Nine, in fact, until the Texans play another game. There will be all of February to talk talk about free agency, and March will be split between both free agency the upcoming draft, with April full of draft talk. All that will be here soon. What we have right now is finite. Three more games, soon to disappear altogether entirely. Loyal reader, I wanted to take a second from my monomaniacal pursuit to summarize the resources available to the Texans this offseason for everyone who is in that mode.For those who have already moved forward to 2019. As of right now, the Texans have $67,097,417.00 in cap space. This is the sixth most in the league. They’ll be paying $1,769,452 in dead money to Jeff Allen, Braxton Miller, Tyler Ervin, and Treston Decoud. Remember them? This number is also before potential cuts. Houston can save $14 million if they cut Demaryius Thomas Zach Cunningham Jersey , $9,069,000 if they cut Kevin Johnson, $6,203,125 if they cut Lamar Miller, $2,687,500 if they cut Ryan Griffin, and dare I say it, $13 million if they cut J.J. Watt. Whitney Mercilus is also a possible trade piece; Houston would save $6,250,000 if they cut ties with Mercilus. $67 million is a lot of money, especially for a playoff team to have at their disposal. The joys of having a quarterback on a rookie contract. The Texans have fifteen unrestricted free agents, three restricted free agents Lonnie Johnson Houston Texans Jersey , and one exclusive rights free agent. That’s a long list. Rather than waste paper, here’s the list of free agents Houston has via Over The Cap. In addition to the $67 million in cap space, players they can release to create more room, and the 17 free agents they have this offseason, the Texans have draft picks. They finally have their first and second round picks again after the [NAME REDACTED] trade zapped a second rounder; their 2018 first rounder was lost in moving up to select Deshaun Watson. By trading second team All-Pro tackle Duane Brown in 2017, the Texans gained a second rounder in the 2019 NFL Draft. Houston will select 23rd overall in the first round, and then have back-to-back second round picks with the 54th and 55th overall selections before moving on to their third, fifth, sixth and seventh round selections as well.The fourth rounder is now Denver’s via the acquisition of Demaryius Thomas back in October.These are the resources Brian Gaine has to work with this spring. Keep this in mind as you scour upcoming free agents and stroll through cyberspace on the backs of Mock Draft camels. Now, back to the 2019 NFL Playoffs. HOUSTON (AP)Justin Reid might have a leg up on most rookies when he joins the Houston Texans after spending years learning about the NFL from his brother Eric, a first-round pick of the San Francisco 49ers in 2013.”We break down film together, I go and visit him at his house,” Justin Reid said. ”We watched games together. He would let me in on what the game plan was that week, how they’re playing certain personnel.”The elder Reid is a safety who spent the last five seasons with the 49ers, but is currently a free agent. Justin Lonnie Johnson Jersey 2019 , a safety from Stanford, followed in his brother’s footsteps when Houston took him with the 68th overall pick in the draft on Friday night.General manager Brian Gaine said they valued the football pedigree in his family, but were more impressed by his other qualities.”What I’ll tell you about Justin is No. 1 (he has) the prototypical body type, height, weight, speed for the position,” Gaine said. ”No. 2 production, graded well in terms of production. No. 3 was the versatility, interchangeable ability to play strong safety, free safety, the ability to play the run, the ability to play the pass. We feel like he’s a fully dimensional safety at the position.”Reid was Houston’s first pick in this year’s draft after the Texans traded away their first-round pick to Cleveland to get quarterback Deshaun Watson with the 12th overall pick last year. They previously sent their second-round pick in this draft to the Browns as part of the deal to get rid of Brock Osweiler.The draft was Gaine’s first as a general manager after taking over in January when Rick Smith took an indefinite leave of absence to be with his wife, who is fighting cancer. But Gaine has plenty of experience in scouting and player evaluations, having worked as assistant general manager for the Dolphins and in player personnel for the Texans and the Bills.He talked about having to wait through two rounds before making his first pick with the Texans.”Unique circumstance, 20 years of doing this Color Rush Lonnie Johnson Jersey , I’ve never had that experience before,” he said. ”But in a way after yesterday it allowed us to kind of reposition ourselves and think about what’s already occurred and kind of measure the supply and demand at the positions with 32 players already gone.”Reid started 11 of 14 games last season, piling up 99 tackles, including 6 1/2 for losses with five interceptions and six pass breakups.Houston addressed its need on the offensive line by taking Mississippi State tackle Martinas Rankin with the 80th pick. The 6-foot-4, 308-pound Rankin is a versatile player who has lined up at almost every position on the offensive line, but spent the most time at left tackle. He’ll have a chance to play early, competing with Julie’n Davenport for the chance to protect Watson’s blind side at left tackle.”We see him as an offensive lineman and hopefully the best five play however that unravels here,” Gaine said. ”But naturally he was a starting left tackle in the SEC so my hope is he’d have the ability to do that, but we also believe that if he has to play guard, right side, left side, wherever we need him that this guy has the versatility to do that.”The Texans used their last pick Friday night to address another need when they chose Central Florida tight end Jordan Akins at No. 98. At 26, the 6-3, 249-pound Akins is much older than most NFL rookies after spending four years playing minor league baseball after being drafted by the Texas Rangers in the third round in 2010.—