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If Caleb Douglas is out, who gets his targets?

The Miami Dolphins room absorbs +0.66 receptions, and Malik Washington takes the largest single share at +0.22. The work stays overwhelmingly inside the wide receiver 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 Caleb Douglas sitsMalik Washington+0.2WR 86% snapsChris Bell+0.2WR 46% snapsKevin Coleman Jr.+0.2WR 38% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerNowIf outChange
De'Von Achane RB · 81% snaps4.204.20+0.00
Caleb Douglas WR · 88% snaps3.70OUT
Malik Washington WR · 86% snaps3.603.82+0.22
Greg Dulcich TE · 69% snaps2.702.70+0.00
Chris Bell WR · 46% snaps1.001.22+0.22
Will Kacmarek TE · 36% snaps0.900.90+0.00
Kevin Coleman Jr. WR · 38% snaps0.700.92+0.22
DJ Herman RB · 28% 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+0.5841,53711.16
Tight ends+0.1751,0803.33
Backs+0.1131,0112.00

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.

Caleb Douglas’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