{"id":153977,"date":"2025-08-17T20:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/153977\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:37:10","slug":"texans-to-trade-wr-john-metchie-to-eagles-for-te-harrison-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/153977\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans To Trade WR John Metchie To Eagles For TE Harrison Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"

After spending last summer as a trade candidate<\/a>, John Metchie<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>remained in place with the Texans<\/strong>. That will not be the case in 2025, however. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Houston has agreed to trade the fourth-year receiver to the Eagles<\/strong>, ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter reports<\/a>. One season remains on Metchie\u2019s rookie contract. The 25-year-old Canadian was sidelined for the 2022 season while recovering from Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia.<\/a> Since then, he has struggled to carve out a role in the Texans\u2019 passing game. Adding further details on the swap, Schefter\u2019s colleague DJ Bien-Aime notes<\/a> tight end\u00a0Harrison Bryant<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is headed the other way.<\/p>\n

Per NFL Network\u2019s Tom Pelissero<\/a>, the teams will swap future Day 3 picks they previously exchanged. The Texans will get back their sixth-rounder in 2026, while the Eagles will once again have their own fifth-round selection in that year.<\/p>\n

Metchie handled a 29% snap share in 2023, and that figure rose to 45% last season. While looking to earn a role amongst Houston\u2019s more established wideouts, the Alabama product recorded 254 yards and one touchdown on 24 catches. Entering a contract year, an uptick in production will be sought out in Philadelphia (although the team\u2019s WR depth will of course make that challenging).<\/p>\n

The Super Bowl champions will once again have\u00a0A.J. Brown<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0DeVonta Smith<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>atop the depth chart in 2025. Philadelphia also has\u00a0Jahan Dotson<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 acquired via trade almost exactly one year ago \u2013 in the fold. Metchie will look to earn a role behind that trio and alongside\u00a0Terrace Marshall<\/a> Jr.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>as well as 2024 draftees\u00a0Ainias Smith<\/a><\/strong> and Johnny Wilson<\/a><\/strong>. NFL insider Jordan Schultz reports<\/a> the\u00a049ers<\/strong> also made an offer for Metchie, but the Eagles\u2019 proposal was better.<\/p>\n

Houston\u2019s receiver room still includes\u00a0Nico Collins<\/a><\/strong>, but the Pro Bowler will have a much different supporting cast around him compared to 2024.\u00a0Stefon Diggs<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>departed in free agency, while\u00a0Tank Dell<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is not expected to play this season<\/a> as he recovers from a major knee injury. The Texans swung an intra-divisional trade for Christian Kirk<\/a> <\/strong>in the spring before adding Jayden Higgins<\/a> <\/strong>and Jaylin Noel<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>during the draft. Both Iowa State rookies figure to play a role on offense early and often in their careers.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Bryant played out his rookie contract with the Browns before spending 2024 in Vegas. The 27-year-old signed with the Eagles<\/a> in March. Before seeing any regular season game action with his new team, however, Bryant finds himself on the move. Like Metchie, he is a pending 2026 free agent. Bryant will now join a Texans TE room which lost Brevin Jordan<\/a><\/strong> for the season recently. He will look to step in as a backup to Dalton Schultz<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Texans and Eagles worked out a trade earlier this offseason, with safety\u00a0C.J. Gardner-Johnson<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and guard\u00a0Kenyon Green<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>being swapped. The teams have repeated a player-for-player trade shortly before the deadline for roster cuts. Now, both Metchie and Bryant will spend the coming weeks acclimating to their new teams while looking to help their market values for next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After spending last summer as a trade candidate, John Metchie\u00a0remained in place with the Texans. That will not…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[74245,2505,90028,1105,9005,62,1650,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-153977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-harrison-bryant","9":"tag-houston-texans","10":"tag-john-metchie","11":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","12":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-transactions","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115046032897762711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}