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

The List reported the wing to be quality $38.5 million, including $13 million guaranteed. On commonplace, Johnson purpose now make $10.5 million per year all through the next seven seasons, not including effectuation incentives.

“I always said I wanted to participate in for single team, and to be skilful to play pro the Houston Texans as a remedy for my unbroken profession is a tremendous honor,” Johnson said. “I always said I wanted to be mainly of something festive, and I knew that coming to a new organization, things were wealthy to be a little disrespectful in the beginning, and with it I have a hunch like things are taking that wheel for the benefit of us.”

The University of Miami-Florida product has spent his thorough seven-year pursuit 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 effort matrix year. He also scored nine touchdowns in 2009 to up his career total to 42 TDs in 102 games.

“After the last two years, unknown has played to the equivalent that this infantile cover shackles has as big that I’ve been around, other than the same other guy,” said nut cram Gary Kubiak. “What he’s been doing has been distinctive, and there’s a lot more to come. So, that’s going to be exciting.”

He has caught 587 passes for the sake of 7,948 yards over the progress of his profession, proper two of the numerous organization records he owns.

Be careful of the rays, man — I’ve lost two friends (both cyclists) to skin cancer.

I was in the military and played rugby to a decent level too, so in some ways we share the same background in as much as we’re used to training, used to competing, we know our bodies and we have a base line knowledge to help with our pedalling.

The only difference is you weren’t stupid enough to let yourself go like I did. It’s a bloody long road back and I’m paying the price for my behavior. I don’t normally do regrets, life is too short. But if ever I had my time again I wouldn’t end up at the age of 45 weighing 22 stones 4Ib, that’s 312Ib to you good folk across the pond.

It’s still a complete mystery to me how it happened and why I stopped doing physical stuff. I just wish I could identify a moment in time when the change happened. From rugby playing, pedalling fit bloke to lethargic lazy fat bloke. What an idiot…

I’ve done some yoga in the past few years and quite a bit of belly dancing. Both have taught me to concentrate on my own abilities and body and not compare to the other people in class.

I think all of the things I’ve learned are helping me with my cycling yet the most important for me to stay excited about cycling or any activity, athletic or not, is to have a supportive friends to keep me going. I found that having positive connections means more to me than the sport itself – and I have found the bicycling community to be so supportive. And with great connections like lovingthebike and my Twitter bicycling friends I’ll probably be doing this for years to come