Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive lineman Logan Hall is headed to the Houston Texans.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers free-agent defensive lineman Logan Hall has a new home.
Hall, the 33rd overall draft pick in 2022, has signed with the Houston Texans on a two-year, $13.75 million deal, NFL insider Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday night.
Hall made significant strides in his last two seasons with Tampa Bay.
In 2024, he had a career-best 5.5 sacks after combining for three in his first two years. This past season, he only had 1.5 sacks, but set a career-high with 39 tackles.
With Houston, Hall joins a defense that finished second in the league in scoring and first in yards allowed per game.
From a non-football standpoint, Hall is going back to the city where he played in college, starring for the University of Houston (2018-2021).
At 6-foot-6 and 283 pounds, Hall is a player capable of playing on the interior and on the edge. Per Pro Football Focus, he played 216 snaps at defensive tackle last season and 283 at either defensive end or as a weakside hybrid pass rusher, depending on the formation.
Tampa ended up needing help everywhere on the defensive line last year.
The team didn’t have much depth at defensive end behind YaYa Diaby (the Bucs' 2025 free-agent signee Haasan Reddick had 2.5 sacks last season), and at defensive tackle, Calijah Kancey’s pectoral injury, which caused him to miss 14 games, threw a wrench into Tampa’s plans.
Tampa is likely to address the defensive line, whether it’s in free agency or next month’s NFL Draft.
Although ESPN’s Adam Schefter floated the idea of Tampa signing Trey Hendrickson from the Cincinnati Bengals, any hope of that happening died Wednesday, when Hendrickson signed a monster deal with the Baltimore Ravens, who had backed out of their trade for Las Vegas Raiders star edge Maxx Crosby.
The Bucs also must decide what to do with Greg Gaines.
A nose tackle who has become a rotational player on the Buccaneers' defensive line, Gaines ended last season as the 108th-ranked player out of 134 at his position, according to Pro Football Focus, so he’s not the type of player to generate a lot of headlines.
But he's a player that knows Bowles' schemes and expectations, and also won’t cost the Bucs a lot.
Spotrac projects Gaines’ market value at just over $2 million for a year, even as his expired one-year contract was for $3.25 million. So there’s little downside to re-signing him, especially with Hall’s departure creating a gap in Tampa Bay's defensive-line depth.
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