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If Brock Wright is out, who gets his targets?

The Detroit Lions room absorbs +0.40 receptions, and Sam LaPorta takes the largest single share at +0.20. 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 Brock Wright sitsSam LaPorta+0.2TE 90% snapsJackson Meeks+0.2TE 2% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerNowIf outChange
Amon-Ra St. Brown WR · 92% snaps6.906.90+0.00
Sam LaPorta TE · 90% snaps4.704.90+0.20
Jahmyr Gibbs RB · 78% snaps4.404.40+0.00
Jameson Williams WR · 90% snaps4.004.00+0.00
Isaac TeSlaa WR · 72% snaps1.601.60+0.00
Brock Wright TE · 38% snaps1.00OUT
Tom Kennedy WR · 0% snaps0.600.60+0.00
Jackson Meeks TE · 2% snaps0.500.70+0.20

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.

Brock Wright’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