Houston Texans: Make A Play For Philip Rivers?

It’s quite rare to see a top-tier quarterback become available in free agency.

But with news that’s coming out on the West coast, there seems to be a possibility of this happening.

Just who am I talking about?

The one and only Philip Rivers — the San Diego Chargers quarterback.

Rivers has been hesitant to sign a new extension and has made it clear that he wants to honor the remainder of his contract that ends after the upcoming season.

To which after that point, he becomes an unrestricted free agent.

The Chargers have been rumored for quite some time to be moving to Los Angeles with a stadium deal in the works and Rivers may not be a fan of uprooting his burgeoning family of seven children to the sprawling metropolis.

If he leaves, he may be more inclined to moving back closer to the calmer surroundings of his roots in the South.

Rivers is a native of Decatur, Ga.

But general manager Tom Telesco has been been dead set since the end of this past season on signing him to a new extension despite the feelings Rivers’ has.

"“I don’t like Philip as our QB, I love him,” Telesco told Kevin Acee of U-T San Diego via text. “And I’ll go to war with him.”"

Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported that Rivers will be the Chargers quarterback for the foreseeable future:

Philip Rivers will play out his contract, even as #Chargers want to give him an extension. He has some leverage. They do, too, with the tag.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 18, 2015

So although Rivers was quite honest about how he feels, if the Chargers really want him, they can tag him franchise-style and all the talks about him leaving will be squashed at least for one more season.

But it’s a matter of if the Chargers think he’s worth it.

Acee, who covers the Chargers’ beat, gave his own two cents:

I'm pretty sure Philip Rivers is #Chargers QB in '15. As for his comments about future, he has this thing about honesty. Simple as that.
— Kevin Acee (@sdutKevinAcee) March 19, 2015

Another intriguing development is that the Chargers are rumored to try to make a run to move up in the draft order for Marcus Mariota, a top quarterback prospect in this year’s draft, Rivers may be on the block.

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The Chargers have the 17th pick this year, coincidentally right after the Texans.

With all of the flattering words that Telesco had to say about Rivers, he did not deny the possibility of a trade for the gunslinger.

So this begs an important question, although it seems we’ve settled our quarterback situation for now by signing Ryan Mallett and Brian Hoyer — with a myriad of unknowns with those guys — would the Texans give up some coveted assets to snag Rivers?

Just because of the difficulty of making the numbers work, this scenario would be highly unlikely until 2016 but you never know what wheels could be turning at the Texans’ front office.