Austin Schlottmann

Austin Schlottmann (born September 18, 1995) is an American football offensive lineman for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at TCU.

Early Years

Schlottmann was born and raised in Brenham, Texas, where he became a football star at Brenham High School, earning All-State honors in 2013 while helping lead the Cubs to the Class 4A Championship game at AT&T Stadium. On February 5, 2014, he signed a national letter of intent to play college football at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.

College career

Schlottmann enrolled at TCU in the summer of 2014, and played in all 13 of the Frogs' games that fall as true freshman in 2014, a season in which they won a Big 12 championship and rank third in the final polls after blowing out Ole Miss, 42-3, in the Peach Bowl . He started 29 games for the TCU in the next three seasons and was named 2nd Team All-Big 12 as a junior in 2016.

Professional career

After going undrafted in the 2018 NFL Draft, Schlottmann signed as a free agent with the Denver Broncos as an undrafted free agent which reunited him with high school teammate Courtland Sutton. He spent the entire 2018 season on the Broncos' practice squad, but made the active roster coming out of training camp in his second year with the team and made his regular season debut September 9, 2019 against the Oakland Raiders on Monday Night Football.