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If Denzel Boston is out, who gets his targets?

The Cleveland Browns room absorbs +0.86 receptions, and KC Concepcion 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 Denzel Boston sitsKC Concepcion+0.2WR 68% snapsJerry Jeudy+0.2WR 61% snapsMalachi Corley+0.2WR 0% snapsIsaiah Bond+0.2WR 11% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerNowIf outChange
KC Concepcion WR · 68% snaps4.104.32+0.22
Harold Fannin Jr. TE · 84% snaps4.104.10+0.00
Denzel Boston WR · 92% snaps3.70OUT
Quinshon Judkins RB · 66% snaps2.602.60+0.00
Jerry Jeudy WR · 61% snaps2.202.42+0.22
Raheim Sanders RB · 27% snaps1.801.80+0.00
Dylan Sampson RB · 0% snaps1.401.40+0.00
Blake Whiteheart TE · 43% snaps0.800.80+0.00
Malachi Corley WR · 0% snaps0.801.01+0.21
Isaiah Bond WR · 11% snaps0.500.71+0.21

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.

Denzel Boston’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