Dalton Schultz

TE · DAL/HOU · 2018–2026

Born July 11, 1996 · College Stanford · Drafted 2018, round 4, pick 137 (DAL) · 6-5, 242 lb

EPA per target by season

Filled dot: stabilised, with its 90% interval. Ring: the raw season rate.

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Stabilised EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2018	DAL	7	17	12	116	0	70.6	+0.220	+0.151−0.031 to +0.332	6.5	4.1	+3.7	+0.17
2018 playoffs	DAL	1	2	1	20	0	50.0	+0.169		6.2	15.0	+0.3	+0.03
2019	DAL	2	2	1	6	0	50.0	−0.178	+0.136−0.055 to +0.326	2.4	10.0	−0.4	−0.01
2020	DAL	16	89	63	615	4	70.8	+0.147	+0.215+0.064 to +0.366	14.4	6.6	+13.1	+0.28
2021	DAL	17	104	78	808	8	75.0	+0.445	+0.326+0.179 to +0.472	16.3	7.1	+46.2	+0.76
2021 playoffs	DAL	1	8	7	89	0	87.5	+0.689		19.0	7.2	+5.5	+0.23
2022	DAL	15	89	57	577	5	64.0	−0.004	+0.134−0.017 to +0.285	18.6	7.2	−0.3	+0.01
2022 playoffs	DAL	2	18	12	122	3	66.7	+0.418		26.1	9.5	+7.5	+0.09
2023	HOU	15	88	59	635	5	67.0	+0.288	+0.252+0.101 to +0.404	17.2	7.6	+25.4	+1.16
2023 playoffs	HOU	2	9	6	80	1	66.7	+0.359		17.0	14.2	+3.2	+0.16
2024	HOU	17	85	53	532	2	62.4	+0.039	+0.178+0.025 to +0.330	15.5	8.0	+3.3	+0.61
2024 playoffs	HOU	2	8	6	86	0	75.0	+0.521		13.3	11.6	+4.2	+0.05
2025	HOU	17	106	82	777	3	77.4	+0.355	+0.326+0.180 to +0.472	19.2	6.2	+37.7	+0.79
2025 playoffs	HOU	2	6	5	59	0	83.3	+0.863		7.8	4.8	+5.2	+0.10
2026	HOU	8	47	35	364	0	74.5	+0.264	+0.233+0.066 to +0.400	17.5	6.4	+12.4	+0.43
Career	HOU	114	627	440	4,430	27	70.2	+0.225		15.8	7.0	+141.1	+4.20

Defence

Counting stats from the play-by-play credits (QB hits from 2006, tackles for loss and passes defensed from 2009).

Season	Team	G	Tackles
2018	DAL	7	1
2020	DAL	16	3
2021	DAL	17	1
2022	DAL	15	1
2025	HOU	17	2
2026	HOU	8	1
Career	HOU	114	9

Playing time

Scrimmage snaps from 2016, in the games he played (share: of his team’s snaps in those games). A season’s snaps appear after its playoffs, when the data is published. Who was on the field: NFL Next Gen Stats via nflverse (2016–22) and FTN Data via nflverse (2023 on), CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Team	G	Offensive snaps	Share of the offence’s snaps	Defensive snaps	Share of the defence’s snaps
2018	DAL	11	289	38.6	–	–
2018 playoffs	DAL	2	84	65.1	–	–
2019	DAL	16	107	9.7	1	1.4
2020	DAL	16	959	84.4	–	–
2021	DAL	17	969	81.0	–	–
2021 playoffs	DAL	1	57	79.2	–	–
2022	DAL	15	808	79.4	–	–
2022 playoffs	DAL	2	119	93.0	–	–
2023	HOU	15	728	73.0	–	–
2023 playoffs	HOU	2	73	80.2	–	–
2024	HOU	17	847	77.7	–	–
2024 playoffs	HOU	2	105	76.1	–	–
2025	HOU	17	807	70.9	–	–
2025 playoffs	HOU	2	66	46.2	–	–

Hands and contested catches

Regular season, 2022 on. Charting: FTN Data via nflverse, CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Targets charted	Catchable %	Drops	Drop % of catchable	Contested targets	Contested catch %
2022	89	74.2	2	3.0	11	63.6
2023	88	73.9	1	1.5	13	30.8
2024	85	71.8	5	8.2	13	46.2
2025	106	81.1	3	3.5	10	50.0
2026	47	78.7	2	5.4	5	80.0

Game logs

2026 game log (8 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2026-09-13	vs BUF	L 31–36	8	4	35	−2.5	0
2	2026-09-20	vs CIN	L 6–20	14	12	140	+7.5	0
3	2026-09-27	@ IND	L 17–19	3	3	30	−1.0	0
4	2026-10-04	vs DAL	L 30–34	2	2	9	+3.1	0
5	2026-10-11	@ TEN	W 26–3	4	3	30	+2.2	0
6	2026-10-18	@ JAX	W 34–31	6	4	33	−1.0	0
7	2026-10-25	vs NYG	L 21–27 OT	6	5	45	+1.5	0
9	2026-11-08	@ LAC	W 44–22	4	2	42	+2.6	1

2025 game log (19 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2025-09-07	@ LA	L 9–14	5	3	28	0	+1.6	0
2	2025-09-15	vs TB	L 19–20	4	3	29	0	+1.2	0
3	2025-09-21	@ JAX	L 10–17	6	5	39	0	+1.8	2
4	2025-09-28	vs TEN	W 26–0	6	5	30	0	−0.6	0
5	2025-10-05	@ BAL	W 44–10	6	5	60	0	+5.9	0
7	2025-10-20	@ SEA	L 19–27	10	9	98	0	+7.1	0
8	2025-10-26	vs SF	W 26–15	3	2	24	0	+1.6	0
9	2025-11-02	vs DEN	L 15–18	8	6	77	0	+1.8	0
10	2025-11-09	vs JAX	W 36–29	11	7	53	1	+4.3	0
11	2025-11-16	@ TEN	W 16–13	9	6	51	0	+0.4	0
12	2025-11-20	vs BUF	W 23–19	4	1	8	0	−1.4	0
13	2025-11-30	@ IND	W 20–16	8	7	55	0	+1.3	0
14	2025-12-07	@ KC	W 20–10	4	3	22	0	+0.0	0
15	2025-12-14	vs ARI	W 40–20	9	8	76	1	+5.9	0
16	2025-12-21	vs LV	W 23–21	5	5	35	1	+3.7	0
17	2025-12-27	@ LAC	W 20–16	4	3	19	0	−2.9	0
18	2026-01-04	vs IND	W 38–30	4	4	73	0	+5.9	0
P19	2026-01-12	@ PIT	W 30–6	4	3	12	0	+0.3	0
P20	2026-01-18	@ NE	L 16–28	2	2	47	0	+4.8	0

2024 game log (19 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2024-09-08	@ IND	W 29–27	3	3	16	0	−1.9
2	2024-09-15	vs CHI	W 19–13	3	2	21	0	+1.6
3	2024-09-22	@ MIN	L 7–34	5	2	11	0	+1.2
4	2024-09-29	vs JAX	W 24–20	5	3	34	0	−0.5
5	2024-10-06	vs BUF	W 23–20	6	4	34	0	−1.1
6	2024-10-13	@ NE	W 41–21	8	4	27	0	−6.2
7	2024-10-20	@ GB	L 22–24	2	1	28	0	+0.6
8	2024-10-27	vs IND	W 23–20	6	4	52	0	+1.5
9	2024-10-31	@ NYJ	L 13–21	6	3	21	0	−2.5
10	2024-11-10	vs DET	L 23–26	4	3	66	0	+4.3
11	2024-11-18	@ DAL	W 34–10	7	5	33	0	−0.6
12	2024-11-24	vs TEN	L 27–32	2	2	20	0	+0.7
13	2024-12-01	@ JAX	W 23–20	7	5	61	1	+7.2
15	2024-12-15	vs MIA	W 20–12	4	2	13	0	−0.9
16	2024-12-21	@ KC	L 19–27	8	5	45	1	+2.2
17	2024-12-25	vs BAL	L 2–31	6	2	21	0	−4.2
18	2025-01-05	@ TEN	W 23–14	3	3	29	0	+1.9
P19	2025-01-11	vs LAC	W 32–12	4	2	23	0	−2.1
P20	2025-01-18	@ KC	L 14–23	4	4	63	0	+6.2

2023 game log (17 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2023-09-10	@ BAL	L 9–25	4	2	4	0	−2.4
2	2023-09-17	vs IND	L 20–31	7	4	34	0	−1.2
3	2023-09-24	@ JAX	W 37–17	3	1	9	0	−2.0
4	2023-10-01	vs PIT	W 30–6	3	3	42	1	+4.8
5	2023-10-08	@ ATL	L 19–21	10	7	65	1	+3.8
6	2023-10-15	vs NO	W 20–13	7	4	61	1	+4.8
8	2023-10-29	@ CAR	L 13–15	5	2	5	0	−1.8
9	2023-11-05	vs TB	W 39–37	11	10	130	1	+9.1
10	2023-11-12	@ CIN	W 30–27	6	4	71	0	+3.1
11	2023-11-19	vs ARI	W 21–16	3	2	32	1	+3.2
12	2023-11-26	vs JAX	L 21–24	2	1	2	0	−3.9
15	2023-12-17	@ TEN	W 19–16 OT	5	4	58	0	+5.9
16	2023-12-24	vs CLE	L 22–36	11	8	61	0	−1.0
17	2023-12-31	vs TEN	W 26–3	4	2	19	0	−0.0
18	2024-01-06	@ IND	W 23–19	7	5	42	0	+3.1
P19	2024-01-13	vs CLE	W 45–14	2	1	37	1	+4.3
P20	2024-01-20	@ BAL	L 10–34	7	5	43	0	−1.1

2022 game log (17 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2022-09-11	vs TB	L 3–19	9	7	62	0	+3.0	0
2	2022-09-18	vs CIN	W 20–17	4	2	18	0	−4.2	0
4	2022-10-02	vs WAS	W 25–10	3	0	0	0	−2.3	0
5	2022-10-09	@ LA	W 22–10	1	0	0	0	−1.3	0
7	2022-10-23	vs DET	W 24–6	5	5	49	0	+3.9	0
8	2022-10-30	vs CHI	W 49–29	7	6	74	0	+4.9	0
10	2022-11-13	@ GB	L 28–31 OT	8	6	54	1	−0.6	0
11	2022-11-20	@ MIN	W 40–3	5	3	22	0	−1.5	0
12	2022-11-24	vs NYG	W 28–20	4	4	31	2	+5.0	0
13	2022-12-04	vs IND	W 54–19	6	2	33	0	−0.9	0
14	2022-12-11	vs HOU	W 27–23	10	6	87	0	−0.3	1
15	2022-12-18	@ JAX	L 34–40 OT	4	2	15	0	−1.6	0
16	2022-12-24	vs PHI	W 40–34	4	3	43	0	−7.4	0
17	2022-12-29	@ TEN	W 27–13	10	7	56	2	+3.3	0
18	2023-01-08	@ WAS	L 6–26	9	4	33	0	−0.2	0
P19	2023-01-16	@ TB	W 31–14	8	7	95	2	+9.1	0
P20	2023-01-22	@ SF	L 12–19	10	5	27	1	−1.6	0

2021 game log (18 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2021-09-09	@ TB	L 29–31	6	6	45	0	+3.1	0
2	2021-09-19	@ LAC	W 20–17	2	2	18	0	+2.0	0
3	2021-09-27	vs PHI	W 41–21	7	6	80	2	+9.3	0
4	2021-10-03	vs CAR	W 36–28	8	6	58	1	+2.8	0
5	2021-10-10	vs NYG	W 44–20	8	6	79	0	+4.2	0
6	2021-10-17	@ NE	W 35–29 OT	6	5	79	0	+5.2	0
8	2021-10-31	@ MIN	W 20–16	7	2	11	0	−3.2	0
9	2021-11-07	vs DEN	L 16–30	5	4	54	0	+3.4	1
10	2021-11-14	vs ATL	W 43–3	2	1	14	0	+0.4	0
11	2021-11-21	@ KC	L 9–19	8	6	53	0	+2.7	0
12	2021-11-25	vs LV	L 33–36	7	3	46	1	+2.5	0
13	2021-12-02	@ NO	W 27–17	5	5	43	0	+2.0	0
14	2021-12-12	@ WAS	W 27–20	3	1	4	0	−8.2	0
15	2021-12-19	@ NYG	W 21–6	8	8	67	1	+5.0	0
16	2021-12-26	vs WAS	W 56–14	9	8	82	1	+6.1	0
17	2022-01-02	vs ARI	L 22–25	10	6	54	0	+3.2	0
18	2022-01-08	@ PHI	W 51–26	3	3	21	2	+5.5	0
P19	2022-01-16	vs SF	L 17–23	8	7	89	0	+5.5	0

2020 game log (16 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2020-09-13	@ LA	L 17–20	4	1	11	0	+0.6	0
2	2020-09-20	vs ATL	W 40–39	10	9	88	1	+0.6	1
3	2020-09-27	@ SEA	L 31–38	6	4	48	0	+2.4	0
4	2020-10-04	vs CLE	L 38–49	8	4	72	1	+3.2	0
5	2020-10-11	vs NYG	W 37–34	3	1	6	0	−0.9	0
6	2020-10-19	vs ARI	L 10–38	5	4	35	0	+0.6	1
7	2020-10-25	@ WAS	L 3–25	4	2	22	0	−1.4	0
8	2020-11-01	@ PHI	L 9–23	8	6	53	0	+2.2	0
9	2020-11-08	vs PIT	L 19–24	7	4	48	0	+2.0	0
11	2020-11-22	@ MIN	W 31–28	6	4	25	1	−2.0	1
12	2020-11-26	vs WAS	L 16–41	5	5	24	0	−0.1	0
13	2020-12-08	@ BAL	L 17–34	4	4	44	0	+1.5	0
14	2020-12-13	@ CIN	W 30–7	3	3	34	0	+2.8	0
15	2020-12-20	vs SF	W 41–33	2	2	14	1	+1.1	0
16	2020-12-27	vs PHI	W 37–17	4	3	21	0	−0.5	0
17	2021-01-03	@ NYG	L 19–23	10	7	70	0	+0.9	0

2019 game log (2 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
6	2019-10-13	@ NYJ	L 22–24	1	1	6	0	+0.1
16	2019-12-22	@ PHI	L 9–17	1	0	0	0	−0.4

2018 game log (8 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
7	2018-10-21	@ WAS	L 17–20	3	1	12	−0.2	0
10	2018-11-11	@ PHI	W 27–20	2	2	21	+0.8	0
12	2018-11-22	vs WAS	W 31–23	1	1	-1	−0.6	0
13	2018-11-29	vs NO	W 13–10	2	1	7	−0.6	0
14	2018-12-09	vs PHI	W 29–23 OT	3	3	37	+2.5	0
15	2018-12-16	@ IND	L 0–23	4	3	23	+1.2	1
17	2018-12-30	@ NYG	W 36–35	2	1	17	+0.7	0
P19	2019-01-12	@ LA	L 22–30	2	1	20	+0.3	0