Eh, that's not entirely true. The Texans were lining him up at safety in camp because he turned up to fulfil his contractual duty ready to play, and they didn't want him playing at QB so they fucked with him.
It's also super misleading
The Texans would have a difficult time suspending him.
And he's not playing because the team doesn't want to trot out a guy as the face of their franchise accused of raping 20 women or whatever the freak.
Also if he goes out and gets hurt, I'd imagine that completely changes everything in regards to the Texans trying to go after his contract money. It also hurts their value in regards to trading him if he gets hurt.
In other words the Texans risk way way more by playing him than not.
I suppose it's also possible that if he gets a suspension after the fact, they could potentially claim this was a suspension (thus salvaging any of his trade value). That's just me speculating
But regardless it seems like there's no good reason to play him. Unless they somehow think they're SB contenders