Texans add Edge Lamarr Houston to help fill injury gaps

Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle is reporting that the Houston Texans are expected to sign edge defender Lamarr Houston.
Houston, who has spent the last three seasons with the Chicago Bears, will hope to provide the Texans with some defensive depth following a weekend in which they lost both DE J.J. Watt and linebacker Whitney Mercilus to season-ending knee and pectoral injuries, respectively.
While with the Bears Houston was no stranger to injury himself, missing 8 games in 2014 and participating in only 31 snaps in 2016 before suffering a season-ending torn ACL in Week 2.
Throughout his career Houston has consistently performed well against the run, ranking in the top six for his position on four occasions in regard to run-stop percentage.
In 2015, his last healthy season, Houston was the top-ranked 4-3 defensive end in the league in run-stop percentage at 12.4 percent. In 2013, his 40 run stops led the lead for his position.
His best season as a pass-rusher came in 2015, when he was predominantly used as an outside linebacker in the Bears 3-4 system, recording a pass-rush productivity (measuring pressure on per-snap basis with weighting toward sacks) of 11.1, the highest rating of his career, ranking 15 among 52 qualifying linebackers.