Video games aren't just a guilty pleasure for NFL players, they're big business
LOS ANGELES - Dalton Schultz learned to design video games at Stanford. He has an old YouTube channel that streams highlights of him shooting his way through "Black Ops 2," building a "Minecraft" mansion, and hunting dragons on "Titanfall." Some of his closest friends are fellow gamers, the disembodied voices he met in virtual worlds.
He is also a 6-foot-5, 260-pound tight end for the Dallas Cowboys.
"I'm not as much of a unicorn as you think I might be," he said. "People who are interested in that are usually kind of introverted, myself included. So that's the space where we like to go out in the world, the game environment."
Video-game obsessions are not unusual in the NFL, where the sounds of "Fortnite" and "Call of Duty" echo through the hallways of team headquarters.
