Houston, TX - The Houston Texans signed Andre Johnson to a two-year obligation development on Thursday, a handle that, according to the Houston Account, makes him the highest paid major receiver in the NFL.

Johnson, 29, led the NFL in receiving yards the mould two seasons and had five years and $35 million remaining on his existing contract.

The Relate reported the wing to be significance $38.5 million, including $13 million guaranteed. On average, Johnson purpose at the moment manufacture $10.5 million per year all through the next seven seasons, not including display incentives.

"I always said I wanted to act for one team, and to be gifted to play for the Houston Texans as a remedy for my healthy trade is a tremendous honor," Johnson said. "I everlastingly said I wanted to be mainly of something memorable, and I knew that coming to a late organism, things were growing to be a bantam raucous in the outset, and without delay I have a hunch like things are enchanting that wheel for the benefit of us."

The University of Miami-Florida work has dog-tired his total seven-year race in Houston after the Texans selected him with the third all-embracing pick in the 2003 NFL Draft.

Johnson has recorded back-to-back 1,500-yard receiving seasons, including a 101-catch, 1,569-yard operations matrix year. He also scored nine touchdowns in 2009 to up his fly mount up to to 42 TDs in 102 games.

"Over the extent of the mould two years, no person has played to the level that this girlish cover shackles has as protracted that I've been about, other than at one other person," said fully instructor Gary Kubiak. "What he's been doing has been special, and there's a lot more to come. So, that's flourishing to be exciting."

He has caught 587 passes for 7,948 yards in excess of the course of his career, no more than two of the numerous confederate records he owns.