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If Adam Trautman is out, who gets his targets?

The Denver Broncos room absorbs +0.43 receptions, and Nate Adkins takes the largest single share at +0.22. The work stays overwhelmingly inside the tight end room.

Where the work goes

Change in projected receptions for every other player in the offense. The bars are small on purpose — a vacated role is shared out, and any tool showing one replacement absorbing a whole target load is telling you something the data does not support.

Receptions gained if Adam Trautman sitsNate Adkins+0.2TE 31% snapsEvan Engram+0.2TE 57% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerNowIf outChange
Courtland Sutton WR · 74% snaps3.803.80+0.00
Jaylen Waddle WR · 68% snaps3.703.70+0.00
RJ Harvey RB · 51% snaps2.802.80+0.00
Evan Engram TE · 57% snaps2.602.81+0.21
Pat Bryant WR · 62% snaps2.502.50+0.00
Troy Franklin WR · 27% snaps1.801.80+0.00
Tyler Badie RB · 26% snaps1.401.40+0.00
Jonah Coleman RB · 23% snaps1.401.40+0.00
Adam Trautman TE · 51% snaps1.20OUT
Marvin Mims Jr. WR · 18% snaps1.201.20+0.00
Nate Adkins TE · 31% snaps1.001.22+0.22
J.K. Dobbins RB · 38% snaps0.700.70+0.00
Lil'Jordan Humphrey WR · 5% snaps0.500.50+0.00

What the data says happens

Measured across every regular-season game from 2018 onward, each beneficiary compared against his own trailing four-game form and net of what the same players do in weeks the room’s number one actually plays.

RoomReceptions gainednt
Receivers+0.1072,1602.29
Tight ends+0.4921,0249.57
Backs-0.0451,259-0.92

The room total is predictable. Which player takes it is not. Every candidate predictor of who gains — pecking order, snap share, route depth, trailing targets — correlates at roughly r = 0.02. In any single week one player usually takes about 60% of what was vacated; it is simply not predictably the same one.

Adam Trautman’s full stats and usageSnap share, target share, game log and this week’s projection

Cascade effects 2018–2026, paired within player, net of control · projections as-of-week with no lookahead · 2026 week 3