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If Jalen Coker is out, who gets his targets?

The Carolina Panthers room absorbs +0.67 receptions, and Tetairoa McMillan 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 Jalen Coker sitsTetairoa McMillan+0.2WR 81% snapsXavier Legette+0.2WR 52% snapsJohn Metchie III+0.2WR 11% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerNowIf outChange
Jalen Coker WR · 80% snaps4.90OUT
Tetairoa McMillan WR · 81% snaps4.504.73+0.23
Darren Waller TE · 40% snaps2.402.40+0.00
Chuba Hubbard RB · 68% snaps2.302.30+0.00
Tommy Tremble TE · 56% snaps2.202.20+0.00
Xavier Legette WR · 52% snaps1.802.02+0.22
Mitchell Evans TE · 49% snaps1.301.30+0.00
Jonathon Brooks RB · 24% snaps0.900.90+0.00
John Metchie III WR · 11% snaps0.801.02+0.22

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.

Jalen Coker’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