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If Noah Fant is out, who gets his targets?
The New Orleans Saints room absorbs +0.40 receptions, and Juwan Johnson takes the largest single share at +0.20. The work stays overwhelmingly inside the tight end 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.
Every player in the room
| Player | Now | If out | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Olave WR · 85% snaps | 6.50 | 6.50 | +0.00 |
| Devaughn Vele WR · 94% snaps | 3.90 | 3.90 | +0.00 |
| Juwan Johnson TE · 68% snaps | 3.80 | 4.00 | +0.20 |
| Alvin Kamara RB · 29% snaps | 2.90 | 2.90 | +0.00 |
| Travis Etienne RB · 56% snaps | 2.60 | 2.60 | +0.00 |
| Bryce Lance WR · 74% snaps | 2.20 | 2.20 | +0.00 |
| Noah Fant TE · 42% snaps | 2.00 | — | OUT |
| Oscar Delp TE · 13% snaps | 0.90 | 1.10 | +0.20 |
| Kevin Austin Jr. WR · 6% snaps | 0.70 | 0.70 | +0.00 |
| Barion Brown WR · 6% snaps | 0.60 | 0.60 | +0.00 |
| CJ Donaldson RB · 23% snaps | 0.50 | 0.50 | +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.
| Room | Receptions gained | n | t |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receivers | +0.107 | 2,160 | 2.29 |
| Tight ends | +0.492 | 1,024 | 9.57 |
| Backs | -0.045 | 1,259 | -0.92 |
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.
Noah Fant’s full stats and usageSnap share, target share, game log and this week’s projection