... star middle linebacker DeMeco Ryans through the 2015 season. The six-year deal is for $48 million and includes a total of $ 21.75 million in guaranteed money.

This deal comes off Ryans' second Pro Bowl season, the first being 2007, and keeps in place a dynamic and important piece of the ever improving Texan defense.

With the addition of first round linebacker Brian Cushing in last year's draft, Houston has formed a formidable, and young, defensive front seven that can only improve going into the 2010 season.

Ryans has established a reputation in the league as not only as having great range on the field, but also playing with a physicality of someone who is 15 pounds heavier.

With this reputation, he was clearly the best...

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