Ex-Patriots LB Colvin to sign with Texans

[MapleLeaf]

From ESPN.com

Free-agent linebacker Rosevelt Colvin has agreed to sign with the Texans, Houston media reported Monday.

Colvin, who played for the Patriots for five seasons in which he won two Super Bowls, visited the Texans earlier this month and passed a physical. He was hampered last season with a foot injury, playing 11 games with four sacks, before his release.

Colvin arrived in Houston on Monday to sign a contract. Texans spokesman Zac Emmons said Colvin hadn't signed but will address the media at the team's facility. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

"Both parties feel like they fit each other," Colvin told KRIV-TV, a Houston Fox affiliate Monday. "Hopefully, we can get everything squared away as far as dotting the i's and crossing the t's. It's definitely a big moment. I'm coming home to an extent. My parents were both born and raised in the state of Texas. We've got history here."

The Texans will be looking for Colvin, 30, to help boost the seventh-year franchise's pass rush opposite defensive end Mario Williams.

"I coached against him for many years and know he's a fine, fine player," Texans coach Gary Kubiak said when Colvin visited in early June, according to The Associated Press.

Colvin, 6-foot-3 and 250 pounds with 52½ sacks, logged a career-high 10½ in 2001 and 2002 with the Bears, who picked him in the fourth round of the 1999 draft out of Purdue.

 

[yezzir]

Eh, the last thing Patriots need is another old linebacker anyways. But he was a solid linebacker though when he was with them.

 

[DJT]

Do you like the Pats and the Lakers???

Anyways I like this move. The Texans needed some help at LB and he will give them just that.

 

[yezzir]

Do you like the Pats and the Lakers???

Anyways I like this move. The Texans needed some help at LB and he will give them just that.

Pfft, yeah right. Exact opposite actually because I'm a Jets fan. I hate the Patriots

 

[DJT]

Oh ok, good. I hate the Pats to. So why do you like the Jets? Just wondering? Lakers and Jets seems like a weird duo.

 

[yezzir]

Haha, yeah ik what you mean. It's pretty much because I used to live in LA until I was like 8 and I grew up loving basketball and the Lakers. Never really liked football though, so I just blew it off. When I moved to New York and started liking football because one of my friends started teaching me how to play and <Censored>, I became a Jets fan. Oh man, I should write a biography.

 

[DJT]

Ah...so your in New York now...I see. Makes sense. You like the Knicks at all?? Or Syracuse???

 

[yezzir]

Knicks no (even though I should, i know), but Syracuse yes. Too bad we can never get into anything but NIT, lol.

 

[DJT]

Oh Syracuse will be back...don't you worry bout that. I'm a big Syracuse fan...not really sure why, just like them.

Oh and Syracuse won the Lacrosse tourney a couple of weeks ago.

 

[yezzir]

Yeah I heard. That's great and all, but I'm not really a lacrosse fan.

 

[DJT]

Yea...but hey at least the school got something.

 

[yezzir]

Haha, true true.