HOUSTON — The Houston Texans cut quarterback Brian Hoyer on Tuesday, little more than a month after signing Brock Osweiler to a four-year, $72 million contract.

Houston also released quarterback B.J. Daniels.

Hoyer signed a two-year contract before last season, but his five-turnover debacle in a 30-0 playoff loss to Kansas City suggested his days in Houston were numbered.

Hoyer was benched in the season opener and the Texans started Ryan Mallett for four games. But he won just one of those games and soon Hoyer was starting again and Mallett was released after missing a team flight. The Texans had to start both T.J. Yates and Brandon Weeden late in the season when Hoyer missed three games because of two concussions in less than a month.

Hoyer will visit the New York Jets on Wednesday. The Jets and incumbent quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, coming off a career-best season, have been far apart in contract negotiations.

Hoyer is a seven-year veteran, an undrafted free agent who spent his first three seasons as Tom Brady’s backup in New England. He went to Arizona in 2012 and got his first NFL start, then spent two seasons in Cleveland – he’s a native of North Olmsted, Ohio – and had a winning record as a starter for the Browns (10-6) when he was healthy.

He then moved to Houston when the Browns brought in another veteran, Josh McCown. Hoyer had some good spells for the Texans, but the playoff meltdown and Osweiler’s signing ended his stay in Houston.

A DALLAS grand jury is scheduled to consider this week whether to charge free-agent quarterback Johnny Manziel with attacking his ex-girlfriend in a January incident.

Prosecutors will present the Manziel case to a grand jury Thursday, Brittany Dunn, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County district attorney, said Tuesday. The grand jury could announce an indictment as soon as Monday. Police originally presented a misdemeanor assault case to prosecutors. That charge carries a maximum punishment of one year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

Manziel, a former Browns quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner at Texas A&M, is accused of hitting his ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley so hard that she temporarily lost hearing in one ear.

• Powerful agent Drew Rosenhaus dropped Manziel as a client on Tuesday after warning the troubled quarterback last week to seek help.

GIANTS: New York re-signed Larry Donnell after the tight end received clearance from the team’s medical staff to resume his career.

Donnell suffered a neck injury on Nov. 1 and missed the rest of the season. He caught 29 passes for 223 yards and two touchdowns.

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