$Signed a three-year, $36 million contract with the Texans in March of 2024.
See red zone opportunities inside the 20, 10 and 5-yard lines along with the percentage of time they converted the opportunity into a touchdown.
This section compares his advanced stats with players at the same position. The bar represents the player’s percentile rank. The longer the bar, the better it is for the player.
Avg Depth of Target
7.7 Yds
Avg Yds Per Route Run
1.15
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How often does Dalton Schultz run a route when on the field for a pass play?
This data will let you see how Dalton Schultz and the other tight ends for the Texans are being used. Some tight ends may have a lot of snaps, but they’re not that useful for fantasy purposes because they’re not actually running routes. This data will help you see when this is the case.
Dalton Schultz
462 routes 85 targets
This Week’s Opposing Pass Defense
The bars represents the team’s percentile rank (based on QB Rating Against). The longer the bar, the better their pass defense is. The team and position group ratings only include players that are currently on the roster and not on injured reserve. The list of players in the table only includes defenders with at least 3 attempts against them.
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Overall QB Rating Against
78.0
Schultz signed a one-year contract with the Texans in free agency after spending his first five NFL seasons in Dallas. After barely seeing the field his first two years, Schultz carved out a substantial role over three subsequent campaigns, drawing at least 89 targets each season while totaling exactly 2,000 yards and 17 touchdowns over that three-year span. He’ll face a downgrade at quarterback, at least short term, with the Texans either starting Davis Mills or second overall pick C.J. Stroud. Cowboys QB Dak Prescott threw 37 TDs in 2021 alone, helping Schultz set career highs with 808 yards and eight touchdowns that year. At no point was Schultz the focal point of the Dallas passing attack, and Houston’s lack of established pass catchers could lead to more targets (but also more defensive attention) for the 6-foot-5 tight end.
The Cowboys used the franchise tag on Schultz after last year’s breakout, as he ranked third in
catches, sixth in yards and fifth in touchdowns among tight ends. He tied Amari Cooper for
second on the Cowboys with 104 targets, and they shared the team lead with eight touchdowns
apiece. Schultz’s 78 catches were just one shy of CeeDee Lamb’s team-leading total, and his
808 receiving yards ranked third on the team behind the two high-profile wide receivers. There
could be even more opportunities available for him in 2022. Cooper was traded in the offseason,
and Dallas released injury-prone No. 2 tight end Blake Jarwin. Michael Gallup is recovering from
a torn ACL and is not expected to be ready for Week 1, while offseason addition James
Washington broke his foot in August. Schultz is set to open the season as Dak
Prescott’s second option behind Lamb, and is well positioned to repeat as a key cog in a
balanced Dallas offense that led the league with 30.4 points per game last year.
When Blake Jarwin went down Week 1 last season, Schultz was the next man up at tight end for Dallas, with the emphasis on “up.” His Week 2 line of 9-88-1 proved to be the high-water mark for his season, as Schultz’s numbers tumbled along with the rest of the offense when Dak Prescott got hurt Week 5, but he still put together a solid campaign. Jarwin will be healthy in 2021, however, and while Schultz has proved himself reliable, there won’t be enough targets to go around for the duo with the team’s elite trio of wideouts and Ezekiel Elliott all demanding looks as well.
Heading into his third NFL season, Schultz has yet to demonstrate he can be anything more than a depth option at tight end. There will be snaps and targets available behind new starter Blake Jarwin following the departure of Jason Witten, but the team will likely use fewer two-TE sets under Mike McCarthy, and free-agent signing Blake Bell can handle the blocking assignments. Schultz has nowhere to go but up after catching only one pass in 2019, but his production should remain modest.
The Stanford product suited up for 11 games as a rookie last year, catching 12 of 17 targets for 116 yards, but the return of Jason Witten and the emergence of Blake Jarwin late in 2018 should relegate Schultz primarily to a blocking role.
A 2018 fourth-round pick out of Stanford, Schultz more than proved himself as a blocker in college as he helped turn Christian McCaffrey and Bryce Love into 1,000-yard rushers. Schultz didn’t make much of an impact as a receiver, however, and while he has the height and athleticism to potentially be a useful red-zone target in the NFL, his ability to contribute between the 20s remains a question mark. There will be a lot of snaps at tight end up for grabs in Dallas this year following the retirement of Jason Witten, but the rookie will need to show he can be at least a reliable chain-mover for Dak Prescott to take a significant share of them.
