ESPN.com · Mar 2, 2021
David Johnson reworks deal for 2021 with Houston Texans, source says
The Houston Texans restructured running back David Johnson's contract, which now will be worth up to $6 million in 2021, including $4.25 million fully guaranteed at signing, a source told ESPN.
Johnson might have been a salary cap casualty if he had not restructured his contract.
Johnson, who signed a three-year, $39 million extension with the Arizona Cardinals in 2018, would have had a cap hit of more than $11 million in 2020 before he agreed to the restructured deal. He would have been owed nearly $9 million in 2021, of which just $2.1 million was guaranteed.
Houston traded for Johnson in March 2020 in a deal that sent wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins to the Cardinals.
