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If Jameson Williams is out, who gets his targets?

The Detroit Lions room absorbs +0.68 receptions, and Amon-Ra St. Brown 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 Jameson Williams sitsAmon-Ra St. Brown+0.2WR 92% snapsIsaac TeSlaa+0.2WR 72% snapsTom Kennedy+0.2WR 0% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerNowIf outChange
Amon-Ra St. Brown WR · 92% snaps6.907.13+0.23
Sam LaPorta TE · 90% snaps4.704.70+0.00
Jahmyr Gibbs RB · 78% snaps4.404.40+0.00
Jameson Williams WR · 90% snaps4.00OUT
Isaac TeSlaa WR · 72% snaps1.601.83+0.23
Brock Wright TE · 38% snaps1.001.00+0.00
Tom Kennedy WR · 0% snaps0.600.82+0.22
Jackson Meeks TE · 2% 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+0.5841,53711.16
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.

Jameson Williams’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