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If DJ Moore is out, who gets his targets?

The Buffalo Bills room absorbs +0.84 receptions, and Khalil Shakir takes the largest single share at +0.21. 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 DJ Moore sitsKhalil Shakir+0.2WR 51% snapsKeon Coleman+0.2WR 62% snapsJosh Palmer+0.2WR 34% snapsGreg Dortch+0.2WR 5% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerNowIf outChange
Khalil Shakir WR · 51% snaps4.404.61+0.21
Dalton Kincaid TE · 69% snaps3.903.90+0.00
Keon Coleman WR · 62% snaps3.003.21+0.21
DJ Moore WR · 54% snaps2.70OUT
James Cook RB · 73% snaps2.602.60+0.00
Dawson Knox TE · 72% snaps2.502.50+0.00
Josh Palmer WR · 34% snaps1.201.41+0.21
Greg Dortch WR · 5% snaps0.801.01+0.21
Jackson Hawes TE · 46% snaps0.800.80+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.

DJ Moore’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