{"id":138919,"date":"2023-03-20T17:31:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T21:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=138919"},"modified":"2023-03-20T17:31:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T21:31:28","slug":"dalton-schultz-signs-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/03\/20\/dalton-schultz-signs-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalton Schultz Signs Contract With Houston Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NFL veteran Dalton Schultz signed a new contract with the Houston Texans. Schultz spent the 2022 season with the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Texans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Texans<\/a> are signing TE Dalton Schultz to a one-year deal worth up to $9 million, per sources. <\/p>\n<p>Schultz has 198 catches and 17 TDs over the past three seasons in Dallas. He\u2019s still only 26. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z19c7saA0D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Z19c7saA0D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1637927649287757923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dalton Schultz, Houston Texans, Agree to Contract<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dalton Schultz had a mediocre year due to a knee injury in the Week 2 win over the Cincinnati Bengals. Schultz was inconsistent all season but was one of Prescott\u2019s targets in a pinch. The Dallas tight end racked up 577 yards on 57 catches during the 2022-2023 campaign. He doubled down his 577 yards with five scores, including three more in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schultz\u2019s best games were scattered throughout the season. He reached over 50 yards receiving against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/buccaneers\/\" target=\"_self\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/bears\/\" target=\"_self\">Chicago Bears<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/packers\/\" target=\"_self\">Green Bay Packers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/texans\/\" target=\"_self\">Houston Texans<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/titans\/\" target=\"_self\">Tennessee Titans<\/a>, and against the Buccaneers in the playoffs. Schultz scored against the Packers and twice against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/giants\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Giants<\/a> and Titans. He also scored against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/49ers\/\" target=\"_self\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> in the playoffs as well as two more times against the Buccaneers in the Wildcard round.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schultz has been a breakout candidate since bursting onto the scene in 2020 with 615 yards and four scores. He got his opportunity after an injury to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JarwBl00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-02-23_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Jarwin<\/a> early in the season. Schultz took advantage of this opportunity with a career season. Schultz had his best season in 2021. He racked up 808 yards on 78 receptions with eight scores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schultz attended Stanford University from 2015-2017. He played behind Austin Hooper and redshirted as a freshman. Schultz was used primarily as a blocker opening running lanes for running backs Christian McCaffrey and Jordan Love. The future star tight end was habitually under-utilized all three years at Stanford before declaring for the NFL draft. Even with his mediocre usage in college, Schultz was voted to the All Pac-12 First Team as a tight end. He finished with 555 yards, five scores, and 55 receptions in three years for Stanford before entering the NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dalton Schultz is coming off a season with 57 receptions for 577 yards and five touchdowns, which was down from the last two years&#8217; numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3737,"featured_media":138968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19],"tags":[9641,7004],"class_list":["post-138919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-cowboys","tag-2023-nfl-free-agency","tag-dalton-schultz"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}