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If Will Kacmarek is out, who gets his targets?

The Miami Dolphins room absorbs +0.20 receptions, and Greg Dulcich 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.

Receptions gained if Will Kacmarek sitsGreg Dulcich+0.2TE 69% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerNowIf outChange
De'Von Achane RB · 81% snaps4.204.20+0.00
Caleb Douglas WR · 88% snaps3.703.70+0.00
Malik Washington WR · 86% snaps3.603.60+0.00
Greg Dulcich TE · 69% snaps2.702.90+0.20
Chris Bell WR · 46% snaps1.001.00+0.00
Will Kacmarek TE · 36% snaps0.90OUT
Kevin Coleman Jr. WR · 38% snaps0.700.70+0.00
DJ Herman RB · 28% 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+0.1072,1602.29
Tight ends+0.4921,0249.57
Backs-0.0451,259-0.92

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.

Will Kacmarek’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