Austin Schlottmann (born September 18, 1995) is an American football center for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played

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Early years

Schlottmann was born and raised in

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, 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

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. 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

Denver Broncos

After going undrafted in the

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, 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

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on Monday Night Football. He was named the starting right guard in Week 14 after Ronald Leary was out the rest of the season. On August 31, 2021, Schlottmann was waived by the Broncos and re-signed to the practice squad the next day. He was promoted to the active roster on November 9, 2021.

Minnesota Vikings

On March 16, 2022, Schlottmann signed with the Minnesota Vikings. He was placed on injured reserve on January 3, 2023. Schlottmann re-signed with the Vikings on March 17, 2023.

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External links

TCU bioDenver Broncos bio
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