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If Jacory Croskey-Merritt is out, who gets his targets?

The Washington Commanders room absorbs +0.21 receptions, and Rachaad White takes the largest single share at +0.21. The work stays overwhelmingly inside the running back 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 Jacory Croskey-Merritt sitsRachaad White+0.2RB 46% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerNowIf outChange
Stefon Diggs WR · 57% snaps4.304.30+0.00
Terry McLaurin WR · 78% snaps3.503.50+0.00
Antonio Williams WR · 43% snaps3.003.00+0.00
Rachaad White RB · 46% snaps2.502.71+0.21
Chig Okonkwo TE · 56% snaps2.502.50+0.00
Dyami Brown WR · 54% snaps2.002.00+0.00
Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB · 43% snaps1.00OUT
Ben Sinnott TE · 47% snaps0.900.90+0.00
John Bates TE · 40% snaps0.900.90+0.00
Jaylin Lane WR · 20% snaps0.800.80+0.00
Colson Yankoff TE · 16% snaps0.600.60+0.00
Treylon Burks WR · 30% 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+0.1122,0942.36
Tight ends+0.1031,2582.16
Backs+0.6101,04211.17

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.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt’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