SOURCE: Texans Trade CB Crossen To New York Giants

Keion Crossen is headed back to work with Joe Judge in The Big Apple

The Houston Texans are trading veteran cornerback Keion Crossen to the New York Giants for a future sixth-round pick, according to league sources not authorized to speak publicly.

Due to injuries and Bradley Roby's performance enhancing drug suspension, the core special-teams contributor started the final four games of the year last season and finished with a career-high 46 tackles and five passes defensed.

Crossen played a career-high 28 percent of the overall defensive snaps and also played 59 percent of the special teams snapped.

Last season, Crossen allowed some catches, but he also knocked away throws intended for Pro Bowl wide receivers, including the Chicago Bears' Allen Robinson and then-Cincinnati Bengals standout A.J. Green.

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At 5-foot-10, 185 pounds, Crossen is relatively undersized in terms. He's also extremely athletic. He's run the 40-yard dash in 4.28 seconds. He's also strong and competitive and a hard hitting, sure tackler. 

A former New England Patriots seventh-round draft pick from Western Carolina acquired by the Texans in a trade for a sixth-round draft pick, Crossen held Green to four catches for 64 yards on seven targets and no scores last season. He had four passes defensed against Cincinnati as they tried to target Crossen and exploit Green's superior size. 

Crossen knocked the deep throws away and had the most passes defended by a Texans player since Johnathan Joseph with four in 2015 against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Texans are required to trim their roster down from 90 to 85 by Tuesday, August 17 at 4:00 p.m. ET. On Monday, Houston elected to release wide receiver Isaiah Coulter. Coulter was a fifth-round pick from the 2020 class.

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