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Despite being traded three times in his career, wide receiver appears to have been hoping to be dealt one more time prior to Tuesday's 4 p.m. ET trade deadline. Cooks was rumored to be one of the deadline's available big-name players despite signing a two Charlie Coyle Jersey -year, $39.8 million extension with the Texans this past offseason. His head coach, Lovie Smith, said that Cooks was excused from Tuesday's practice for "personal reasons."After not getting dealt, Cooks did not practice on Wednesday, once again for personal reasons, . He is listed as questionable for Thursday's game against Minnesota Wild Jersey  the undefeated . reported that the Texans and were discu sing a deal for Cooks and were in the neighborhood on compensation, but that guaranteed salary became the deal-breaker. On top of po sibly heading to Dallas, there were talks for Cooks, but  Jonas Brodin Jersey nothing came of them, and also that the couldn't come to any deals despite their best efforts.However, the deadline came and went and Cooks remained a  Chris Stewart Jersey Texan. Here's what he tweeted shortly after 4 p.m. ET.    Dont take a mans kindne s for granted. Covered for the lies for too long those days are done. Cro sed the line with playing with my career  Brandin Cooks (@brandincooks)  Thanks to that offseason extension, Cooks has a fully guaranteed salary of $18 million for the 2023 season and is under contract through 2024. The 2023 guarantee may have hindered some of the potential contenders for Cooks being Darcy Kuemper Jersey  able to agree with the Texans on draft pick compensation. Cooks had six seasons of over 1,000 yards receiving in his first eight in the league from 2014-2021.The 20th overall pick in the 2014 has been productive in each place he has been dealt. Cooks was traded from New Orleans to New England in 2017, his fourth season. He spent a year with  Mikko Koivu Jersey the and reached LII. He faced the in Super Bowl LIII the following season after being traded to the in 2018. Cooks spent two years in Sean McVay's system before he was dealt to the Texans in advance Devan Dubnyk Jersey  of the 2020 season.  The 5-foot-10, 183-pound wideout had two 1,000-yard campaigns in three seasons with the . He topped the 1,000-yard mark during his sole season with and had consecutive 1,000-yard seasons during his first two seasons with the Texans, while catching pa ses from the likes of , and . His 2022 season has been slow so far,  Erik Haula Jersey with only 32 receptions for 354 yards and a score in seven games, while averaging 11.1 yards per catch -- the fewest since his rookie season in 2014.