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If Dontayvion Wicks is out, who gets his targets?

The Philadelphia Eagles room absorbs +0.92 receptions, and DeVonta Smith takes the largest single share at +0.23. 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 Dontayvion Wicks sitsDeVonta Smith+0.2WR 92% snapsMakai Lemon+0.2WR 64% snapsMarquise Brown+0.2WR 22% snapsDarius Cooper+0.2WR 28% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerNowIf outChange
DeVonta Smith WR · 92% snaps5.105.33+0.23
Dallas Goedert TE · 60% snaps3.303.30+0.00
Dontayvion Wicks WR · 76% snaps3.00OUT
Makai Lemon WR · 64% snaps2.402.63+0.23
Marquise Brown WR · 22% snaps1.501.73+0.23
Will Shipley RB · 34% snaps1.501.50+0.00
Saquon Barkley RB · 44% snaps1.401.40+0.00
Johnny Mundt TE · 50% snaps1.101.10+0.00
Darius Cooper WR · 28% snaps0.801.03+0.23
Tank Bigsby RB · 22% snaps0.700.70+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.

Dontayvion Wicks’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