{"id":10266,"date":"2014-05-13T10:51:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T14:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2014-05-13T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T14:51:06","slug":"texans-not-trading-for-ryan-mallett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/13\/texans-not-trading-for-ryan-mallett\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans not trading for Ryan Mallett?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9432\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/ryanmallett.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/ryanmallett.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/ryanmallett-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/ryanmallett-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ah, make it stop already. The ongoing saga about the Houston Texans and New England Patriots backup quarterback Ryan Mallett continues.<\/p>\n<p>After NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport said that the Texans and Patriots had interest in working out a deal, John McClain of the Houston Chronicle reports that a trade will not happen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Texans will not be trading for Ryan Mallet.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John McClain (@McClain_on_NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McClain_on_NFL\/statuses\/466224064462598144\">May 13, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>McClain gained a little national attention after the draft when he ate the front page of the sports section once the Texans drafted Jadeveon Clowney at No. 1. It had been McClain&#8217;s belief that the team was going to draft a quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the Texans have Ryan Fitzpatrick as their starter and Case Keenum remains on the roster. The team also drafted Tom Savage in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if Mallett is even an upgrade at this point. If the Texans are focused on the abilities of Savage or looking towards next year&#8217;s draft then trading for Mallett would simply not make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, make it stop already. The ongoing saga about the Houston Texans and New England Patriots backup quarterback Ryan Mallett continues. After NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport said that the Texans and Patriots had interest in working out a deal, John McClain of the Houston Chronicle reports that a trade will not happen. Texans will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,60,23,216,676],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-houston-texans","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-ryan-mallett"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10267,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions\/10267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}