{"id":23892,"date":"2014-09-24T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/texans-sign-nt-pickett-nix-to-ir\/"},"modified":"2014-09-24T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T12:31:00","slug":"texans-sign-nt-pickett-nix-to-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/texans-sign-nt-pickett-nix-to-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans sign NT Pickett; Nix to IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Texans have signed nose tackle Ryan Pickett after placing rookie defensive lineman Louis Nix on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Nix, a third-round pick out of Notre Dame, underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee before training camp and hasn&#8217;t fully recovered. Texans coach Bill O&#8217;Brien said earlier this week that Nix still had &#8220;a ways to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pickett is entering his 14th NFL season. He spent his first five years with St. Louis, which made him a first-round pick in 2001, and played the past eight seasons in Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Ohio State product started all 16 games for the Packers last season and notched 19 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Houston also signed kicker Chris Boswell to the practice squad and released cornerback Marcus Williams from the practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Texans have signed nose tackle Ryan Pickett after placing rookie defensive lineman Louis Nix on injured reserve. Nix, a third-round pick out of Notre Dame, underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee before training camp and hasn&#8217;t fully recovered. Texans coach Bill O&#8217;Brien said earlier this week that Nix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,151,152],"class_list":["post-23892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-texans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}