The Texans bolstered their already healthy salary-cap situation with the roster cuts of running back Arian Foster, tight end Garrett Graham and, soon to be, former safety Rahim Moore.

The Texans will create $11.18 million in additional salary-cap surplus with those reductions and will be $42.149 million under the NFL salary-cap limit of $155.27 million with 54 current contracts.

The Texans saved $6.625 million with Foster, $3.125 million with Graham and $2.068 with Moore.

The Texans are expected to use some of that money to try to re-sign offensive guard Brandon Brooks and center Ben Jones and by extending restricted free agent and exclusive-rights free agent tenders.

The Texans opted to roll over $1.637 million in salary-cap space from last year.

Texans general manager Rick Smith recently praised vice president of football administration Chris Olsen for his work managing the salary cap and negotiating contracts.

"We do have some choices," Smith said. "Chris has done an outstanding job of managing our salary cap and negotiating with our players' agents and those kinds of things. We have some flexibility with the way that we managed our cap. It is not exactly where we want it to be.

"I think we have to continue to exercise discipline in that way, so that we can continue to be in a healthy state, salary cap-wise. The way that you structure contracts help you in that and that is where Chris has done an outstanding job for us."