David Quessenberry will likely have to wait another year to try and play in the NFL.

The Houston Texans waived the offensive tackle Tuesday with a non-football injury designation. Quessenberry entered remission from cancer a year ago, but the Texans feel it would still be too early to return to football activities.

“We believed that David Quessenberry wasn’t going to be ready, from a health standpoint, to adequately compete this year,” Texans head coach Bill O’Brien said in a team release. “So procedurally, in order to gain the roster spot, we made the decision to place him on waivers with the designation of NFI, non-football illness.”

Quessenberry has yet to play in the NFL four years after the Texans drafted him. He missed his rookie season with a foot injury and the past three seasons battling cancer.

If Quessenberry clears waivers, he’ll stick with the Texans on the non-football injury/illness list.

“We want him to fully attack and beat cancer, which he will do, and then get him back on the 90-man roster at some point in 2017,” O’Brien said.