{"id":875880,"date":"2026-04-27T07:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/875880\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:57:19","slug":"daniel-sobkowiz-signs-udfa-deal-with-houston-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/875880\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Sobkowiz signs UDFA deal with Houston Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) \u2013 The greatest wide receiver in Illinois State history went undrafted over the weekend, but still found his way to an NFL contract.<\/p>\n<p>Danie Sobkowicz signed an undrafted free agent deal with the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/houston\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Texans;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Houston Texans&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Texans<\/a> on Saturday, hours after the draft came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Sobko hauled in over 3,500 yards over his four years with the Redbirds as well as hauling in 41 touchdowns. Both are program records.<\/p>\n<p>He was instrumental in getting the Redbirds to the FCS national championship game back in January.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralillinoisproud.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to CIProud.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to CIProud.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to CIProud.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) \u2013 The greatest wide receiver in Illinois State history went undrafted over the weekend, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2056],"tags":[7,221,253,2368,32750,95304,6,15826,222,2821],"class_list":{"0":"post-875880","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-houstontexans","12":"tag-illinois-state","13":"tag-illinois-state-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-redbirds","16":"tag-texans","17":"tag-undrafted-free-agent"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116475608601567630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875880","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=875880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}