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Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 255 lbs.
College: Western Michigan
Born: Feb. 15, 1983 in Morenci, Mich.
Acquired: Draft #2 (61st overall), 2006
Pro Year: 4th
Year with Broncos: 4th
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CAREER TRANSACTIONS: Signed by Denver as a draft choice 7/27/06.
2008: Scheffler played 13 games (7 starts) for the Broncos, totaling 40 receptions for a career-high 645 yards (16.1 avg.) with three touchdowns... Led all NFL tight ends and set a Denver single-season record for that position group with a 16.1 yards per reception average that ranked 11th among all players for the year... Ranked eighth in the league in receiving yards (645) by a tight end... Posted a career-long 72-yard reception at Oak. (9/8) that was the longest reception by an NFL tight end in 2008... Inactive for Games 6-8 with a groin injury.
2007: Scheffler played 16 games (7 starts) for Denver, totaling a personal-best 49 receptions for 549 yards (11.2 avg.) with five touchdowns... Ranked second on Denver in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns... Placed 10th among NFL tight ends in receptions, 11th in receiving yards and tied for eighth in receiving touchdowns... Tied for fourth among league tight ends with 47 receptions during the final 11 weeks of the year, totaling 512 yards and all five of his receiving scores during that time... Became the first Broncos tight end since 2004 (Jeb Putzier) to record 500 receiving yards in a season... Posted his first career 100-yard receiving game with 100 yards on seven catches, including one touchdown, at Hou. (12/13) on Thursday Night Football.
2006: Selected by the Broncos in the second round (61st overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft, Scheffler made 18 catches for 286 yards (15.9 avg.) with four touchdowns in 13 games (5 starts) as a rookie... Four touchdowns tied Rick Massie (1987) for the most receiving scores by a Broncos rookie in team history and were the most by a rookie tight end in club annals... Placed third among all NFL tight ends with 204 receiving yards (11 catches) and led that group with four touchdowns over the final four weeks of the season... Made three catches for a season- high 66 yards with two touchdowns at S.D. (12/10)... Two touchdowns against the Chargers came within 48 seconds from quarterback Jay Cutler, tying the NFL record for the fastest that two rookies produced a pair of touchdowns (Charlie Conerly and Bill Swiacki, New York Giants, 1948)... Also tied a Denver single-game record for receiving touchdowns by a rookie and became the fifth rookie tight end in the NFL since 2000 to catch multiple touchdowns in a game with his performance in San Diego.
COLLEGE: Scheffler played 35 career games (21 starts) at Western Michigan University, totaling 117 receptions for 1,345 yards (11.5 avg.) with 13 touchdowns... Finished his career ranked second among tight ends in both receptions and receiving yards in school history... Was a two-time first-team All-Mid-American Conference choice as a starter at tight end during his final two seasons after beginning his career as a wide receiver... Placed fourth in voting for the John Mackey Award (nation’s best tight end) as a senior, posting a career-high 57 receptions for 670 yards (11.8 avg.) with nine touchdowns.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Scheffler played at Chelsea High School (Michigan), where he set a school record for receiving yards in a season (1,340) and finished the 2000 season with 67 receptions and 16 touchdowns.[citation needed] In the 2000 playoffs vs. Monroe Jefferson High School he caught a fourth down reception on the final drive to tie the game. Scheffler wore number 19 and graduated in the class of 2001.
PERSONAL: Scheffler attended Chelsea High School in Chelsea, Mich., where he played wide receiver on the football team... Named a Detroit News Dream Team selection at Chelsea, setting a school single-season record for receiving yards (1,340) in 2000... Totaled 67 catches with 16 touchdowns as a senior, helping the school post an 11-1 record... Excelled away from football, starting on the school’s basketball team and earning all-state honors as a first baseman on the baseball squad... Lettered three times (2003-05) on Western Michigan’s baseball team, posting a .293 career batting average with seven home runs and 41 RBI in 79 games... Cousin of former Purdue University basketball player Steve Scheffler, who played seven seasons (1991-97) in the NBA and spent time on the Denver Nuggets in 1992... Majored in marketing (3.63 GPA) at Western Michigan... Resides in Chelsea, Mich.... Tony Scheffler was born on Feb. 15, 1983, in Morenci, Mich.
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