Dalton Schultz Madden Career 2019-2026 - Peak 84 OVR

Dalton Schultz was a fourth-round pick out of Stanford in 2018, a blocking tight end who barely caught a pass his first two years, a single reception in all of 2019. Then the targets came, and he turned out to be a natural chain-mover, a sure-handed seam target who grew into exactly a tight end a quarterback learns to trust.

The Madden card climbed with the production. He opened at a 69, sat low while he blocked, then rose as the receptions piled up, a 63-catch 2020 and a career-high 78 in 2021 pushing the grade toward an 84 peak in Madden NFL 25. The number tracked his emergence almost exactly, a backup's rating becoming a productive starter's as Dak Prescott leaned on him more each year.

Dallas kept him on the franchise tag in 2022, a sign of how much they valued the reliability, before he signed with Houston in 2023 and became a trusted target for a young C.J. Stroud. Schultz is the tidy story of a late-round tight end who developed on schedule, blocking first and catching later, and the climb from a 69 to an 84 is the clean arc of a player who grew into a real role.