The Texans got solid production from their starting tight end, Dalton Schultz, in 2025. Schultz hauled in 82 receptions for 777 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n
He was Mr. Reliable all season for quarterback C.J. Stroud and should be in line for an even stronger 2026 campaign with another year in Nick Caley\u2019s system.<\/p>\n
The real concern lies in the depth behind him. Brevin Jordan was expected to serve as the No. 2 tight end and has flashed in that role before, but he unfortunately suffered another season-ending injury before the season, and ended up missing the entire year. Jordan brings energy and playmaking ability when healthy \u2014 the problem is staying healthy.<\/p>\n
In his absence, Cade Stover didn\u2019t offer much of a receiving threat and hasn\u2019t shown enough to be relied upon long term, despite being selected in the fourth-round in 2024.<\/p>\n
Due to that, Houston should strongly consider investing a premium draft pick at tight end in the upcoming draft. A rookie could come in, develop under Schultz, and potentially take over the starting role in 2027, as Schultz is set to hit free agency after the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
Overall, the Texans aren\u2019t in terrible shape at tight end, but they need another legitimate playmaker in that room. Expect that position to be addressed this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texans got solid production from their starting tight end, Dalton Schultz, in 2025. Schultz hauled in 82…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[7,221,253,80647,7162,2368,6,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-750629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-texans","11":"tag-houston-texans-analysis","12":"tag-houston-texans-offseason","13":"tag-houstontexans","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116066734816971295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}