{"id":416157,"date":"2026-01-19T04:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/416157\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:22:08","slug":"texans-lose-te-dalton-schultz-calf-for-rest-of-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/416157\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans lose TE Dalton Schultz (calf) for rest of game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DJ Bien-AimeJan 18, 2026, 04:47 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>DJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN in July of 2022 after covering the New York Jets for the New York Daily News. He’s a former athlete who finished his college career at Louisville. You can catch DJ on ESPN Radio on his show “Talkin’ Texans.”<\/p>\n

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The Houston Texans<\/a> lost their second-best pass catcher Sunday as tight end Dalton Schultz<\/a> was ruled out for the rest of the divisional round playoff game against the New England Patriots<\/a> with a calf injury.<\/p>\n

During Houston’s second drive, Schultz caught a 42-yard reception that moved the Texans to the Patriots’ 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

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

Houston came into the game without Pro Bowl wideout Nico Collins<\/a>, who had 1,117 receiving yards and six touchdowns in the regular season. But in Houston’s 30-6 wild-card win over the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> last week, Collins suffered a concussion.<\/p>\n

Schultz finished the regular season with 777 receiving yards, second most on the Texans.<\/p>\n

The Texans later lost their No. 2 tight end for the game when Cade Stover<\/a> was ruled out with a knee injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DJ Bien-AimeJan 18, 2026, 04:47 PM ET CloseDJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-416157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}