{"id":128460,"date":"2026-01-18T23:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128460\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:27:24","slug":"texans-lose-te-dalton-schultz-calf-for-rest-of-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128460\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans lose TE Dalton Schultz (calf) for rest of game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FOXBOROUGH, Mass. &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-texans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Texans<\/a> lost their second-best pass catcher Sunday as tight end <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3117256\/dalton-schultz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dalton Schultz<\/a> was ruled out for the rest of the divisional round playoff game against the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ne\/new-england-patriots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New England Patriots<\/a>with a calf injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">During Houston&#8217;s second drive, Schultz caught a 42-yard reception that moved the Texans to the Patriots&#8217; 27-yard line. The drive ended up in a field goal pushing the score to 7-3 with 5:29 remaining in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After that drive, Schultz immediately went to the locker room with a calf injury, and he was ruled out midway through the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Houston came into the game without Pro Bowl wideout <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4258173\/nico-collins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nico Collins<\/a>, who had 1,117 receiving yards and six touchdowns in the regular season. But in Houston&#8217;s 30-6 wild-card win over the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-steelers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>last week, Collins suffered a concussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Schultz finished the regular season with 777 receiving yards, second most on the Texans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Texans later lost their No. 2 tight end for the game when <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4426496\/cade-stover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cade Stover<\/a> was ruled out with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOXBOROUGH, Mass. &#8212; The Houston Texans lost their second-best pass catcher Sunday as tight end Dalton Schultz was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[55230,7000,56,58,57,79,223,80,55229],"class_list":{"0":"post-128460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-55230","9":"tag-espn","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-houston-texans","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-schultz-dalton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}