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If Kendrick Bourne is out, who gets his targets?

The Arizona Cardinals room absorbs +0.44 receptions, and Michael Wilson takes the largest single share at +0.22. 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 Kendrick Bourne sitsMichael Wilson+0.2WR 90% snapsMarvin Harrison Jr.+0.2WR 76% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerNowIf outChange
Trey McBride TE · 84% snaps7.107.10+0.00
Michael Wilson WR · 90% snaps4.304.52+0.22
Kendrick Bourne WR · 64% snaps2.90OUT
Marvin Harrison Jr. WR · 76% snaps2.202.42+0.22
Jeremiyah Love RB · 42% snaps2.202.20+0.00
Tyler Allgeier RB · 62% snaps2.002.00+0.00
Elijah Higgins TE · 26% snaps0.800.80+0.00
Bam Knight RB · 5% snaps0.600.60+0.00
Hunter Long TE · 32% snaps0.600.60+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.

Kendrick Bourne’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