Report: Christian Kirk Traded to Texans; Jaguars Get 2026 7th-Round NFL Draft Pick

The Houston Texans are addressing their wide receiver room, and they are staying in-division to do it.

The Texans are reportedly finalizing a trade for Jacksonville Jaguars for wideout Christian Kirk, per The Athletic's Dianna Russini. They'll send a 2026 seventh-round pick back to the Jaguars, Russini added.

According to Russini, the Jags were planning to cut Kirk if they couldn't find a trade partner.

The Jaguars will incur $10.5 million in dead cap following the trade but will clear Kirk's $16.2 million salary off their books for the 2025 season, which the Texans will absorb.

The move could spell the end of Stefon Diggs' time in Houston, with the veteran wideout coming off an ACL tear and entering free agency. Nico Collins and Kirk will be the team's top two wideouts, while Tank Dell will be the third option once he eventually returns from the brutal knee injury that has now required two surgeries.

With Dell's status for the 2025 season up in the air, however, John Metchie and Xavier Hutchinson could see a bigger role behind Collins and Kirk.

Kirk, 28, signed a four-year, $72 million deal with the Jaguars ahead of the 2022 season, a lucrative number for a player who hadn't posted a 1,000-yard season in his first four seasons with the Arizona Cardinals.

It looked like a smart signing in the immediate aftermath, however, as Kirk set career highs in receptions (85), receiving yards (1,108) and touchdowns (eight) in his first season in Jacksonville, clearly developing quick chemistry with Trevor Lawrence.

Kirk's production has waned in each of the two seasons that followed, however, as injuries cost him five games in 2023 and nine games in 2024. And with first-year phenom Brian Thomas Jr. clearly the top dog in Jacksonville's pass game going forward, moving on from Kirk and gaining some cap space (and draft capital) in the process made sense.

The Texans will be hoping a change of scenery, and a string of good health, will get Kirk back to 2022 levels. If that happens, the duo of Collins and Kirk will be a handful for opposing defenses.