The ”Honey Badger” is headed to Houston.The Houston Texans said Monday they had signed unrestricted free agent safety Tyrann Mathieu and claimed wide receiver Sammie Coates off waivers from
Cleveland.
Mathieu was released last week by Arizona after five seasons when the two sides couldn’t rework his contract. The 25-year-old safety was due for $18.75
million of his contract to be guaranteed when the league year officially began
and Arizona saved nearly $5 million in cap space by cutting him.
He has 11 career interceptions
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appear in all 16 games and he finished with two interceptions along with 74
tackles. He was an All-Pro in 2015, when he had five interceptions and 17 passes
defensed.
Mathieu became a star in the Arizona secondary after being selected in the third round of the 2013 draft following a troubled college career at LSU. A
finalist for the Heisman Trophy as a sophomore, he got into trouble with
marijuana and eventually was kicked out of school. Mathieu spent an entire
season out of football and slid to the third round before the Cardinals took a
chance on him.
His rookie season ended prematurely when he tore the LCL and ACL in his left knee.
His big 2015 season was cut short when he tore the ACL in the other knee. His absence was sorely felt as the team that went 13-3 before being routed by
Carolina in the NFC championship game.
Despite the injury, the Cardinals rewarded him with a five-year, $62.5 million contract, with $15.5 million guaranteed. Off the field
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The 24-year-old Coates was a third-round pick by Pittsburgh out of Auburn in 2015.. He spent two seasons with the Steelers before joining the Browns last
year. He has 28 career receptions for 516 yards and two touchdowns in 32
regular-season games played, including six starts.
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Nolan Arenado should have no trouble getting to sleep now.
Arenado homered for the third straight game and drove in five runs to lead the Colorado Rockies to a 6-4 victory over the New York Mets on Thursday. After
hitting .171 while the Rockies lost eight of 10 over the last two weeks, Arenado
hit .538 in the last three games.
”When you’re losing and you’re not getting hits it hurts,” Arenado said. ”It keeps me up at night.”
Arenado also doubled to back another strong outing from Kyle Freeland (7-6). Freeland has pitched at least six innings in 10 of his last 11 starts and has
emerged as the team’s most reliable starter.
Arenado had just two home runs in his first 15 games of June, but has four in his last seven. He put the Rockies ahead 3-1 with a three-run homer in the first
off Steven Matz (3-5), his 16th of the season.
He delivered a two-run double in the second to drive in five for the second time this season. He also had five RBIs at the Chicago Cubs on May 2.
”Today was a special day. I’m not going to drive in five every game
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Todd Frazier gave the Mets a 1-0 lead in the first with his eighth homer. New York has lost three in a row after winning three straight.
The Mets got within two runs when Frazier and Michael Conforto led off the eighth with singles. Yency Almonte, making his major league debut, relieved
Chris Rusin and allowed one inherited runner to score that made it 5-3 before
getting an inning-ending double play.
It was the fifth double-play grounder by New York on the afternoon. The Rockies tied a franchise record for a nine-inning game by inducing five
ground-ball double plays. It’s only the third time in any game the Rockies
induced five groundout double plays.
Freeland got out of three jams with double plays.
”He made some really good pitches down,” Mets manager Mickey Callaway said. ”I’ve seen Freeland in the past, he does a good job of executing the balls just
down under the zone. If you chase one and put it in play, it becomes a double
play.”
Gerardo Parra’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth restored the three-run lead. New York got one back when Kevin Plawecki tripled in the ninth
and came home on a groundout. Dominic Smith doubled with two outs, but Jake
McGee struck out Brandon Nimmo to get his first save of the season.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mets: INF Asdrubal Cabrera was out of the lineup
http://www.dallascowboysteamonline.com/allen-hurns-jersey , but Callaway said he was fine a day after hitting his left elbow making a tag. …
Callaway said OF Yoenis Cespedes (right hip flexor) did some stretching and the
hope is he progresses in the next few days.
NUMBERS GAME
Arenado has only 14 career at-bats against Matz but he’s made them count. He is hitting .357 with four home runs and 12 RBIs against the Mets’ lefty after
Thursday.
”I threw a couple of bad pitches and Arenado beat me twice,” Matz said. ”That really sums up the whole game.”
Matz struck out Arenado looking in the fourth and settled down to go 5 2-3 innings.
”When you put your team in a hole like that you gotta look ahead and go as deep as you can,” Matz said.
ROSTER MOVE
Before the game, the Rockies recalled Almonte from Triple-A Albuquerque and optioned INF Ryan McMahon to their top farm team. Almonte said he was struggling
with nerves when he jogged to the mound in the eighth.
”I came in and it was first and third and I thought, `I need to do something, get a ground ball or a fly out,”’ Almonte said. ”That was huge for me.”
UP NEXT
Mets: RHP Zack Wheeler (2-5
http://www.buffalobillsteamonline.com/jason-croom-jersey , 4.82) will open a three-game home series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on
Friday night. Wheeler has gone six or more innings in nine of his 13 starts.
Rockies: RHP Jon Gray (6-7, 5.89) takes the mound in the opener of a weekend series against Miami. Gray has allowed 12 earned runs in three June starts and
holds a 6.75 ERA for the month.
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