CJ Donaldson

New Orleans Saints · Running backRB depth

6′1″, 230 lb · age 22 · Ohio State; West Virginia

Week 6 stats

Sun Oct 18, at NYG: CJ Donaldson ran 6 times for 39 yards on 33% of snaps.

Stats through week 6; the week 7 projection below. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Full game log.

CJ Donaldson has no full prior season to anchor to, so this week’s projection leans on his 5 games of current-season usage alone — treat it as a thinner read than a veteran’s.

Week 7 projection

PPR points

6.3

RB42 this week

Rush attempts

4.2

Rushing yards

Receptions

0.9

Receiving yards

Anytime TD

15%

What a realistic week looks like

The projection is the center of this, not a prediction of one number. Eight weeks in ten he lands between 0 and 2 receptions. The shaded bars are that range. This distribution is calibrated — predicted against realized agrees within 0.012 in every decile across 49,202 checks.

CJ Donaldson snap share, game by game

Snap shareTarget share

Role is the most repeatable thing a player has. Snap share reproduces at 0.96 between halves of a season; receptions manage 0.89 and touchdowns 0.56. When these lines move, production follows — not the other way round. Snap share leaders.

Game log

Game	Opp	Snap share	Target share	Tgt	Rec	Rec yds	Car	Rush yds	TD	We said
26 wk7	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9 projected
26 wk6	NYG	33%	3.3%	1	0	0	6	39	0	0.9 -0.9
26 wk5	MIN	42%	4.2%	1	1	7	4	13	0	0.8 +0.2
26 wk4	ATL	38%	4.3%	2	2	5	3	18	0	0.5 +1.5
26 wk3	LV	16%	0.0%	0	0	0	1	5	0	0.5 -0.5
26 wk2	BAL	29%	0.0%	0	0	0	1	2	0	—
26 wk1	DET	17%	3.8%	2	1	-2	2	4	0	—

“We said” is the projection as it was published that week, stored before the game, with the miss beside it. Re-running today’s model on a past week would grade a model that did not exist when the number went out, so those weeks show a dash instead.

CJ Donaldson 2026 stats

Through 6 games of 2026, CJ Donaldson has 4 catches for 10 receiving yards (0.7 catches and 1.7 yards a game), on 29% of snaps.

His first season in the warehouse, so there is no prior year to compare against and no career arc to draw — the projection leans on the league's rookies rather than on him.

	2026 so far (6 games)
Catches per game	0.7
Receiving yards per game	1.7
Target share	2.6%

The whole New Orleans Saints roomEvery pass-catcher ranked by the usage that predicts production

Related players

The rest of the New Orleans Saints running back room, by target share.

Ranked next to him at RB for week 7.

Blake Corum RB39 · LA
Brian Robinson RB40 · ATL
Bam Knight RB41 · ARI
David Montgomery RB43 · HOU
Kenny Gainwell RB44 · TB
TreVeyon Henderson RB45 · NE

What we have measured about running backs

Does a new head coach change who gets the ball?It changes WHO, not how much Do touchdowns repeat from year to year?Much less than receptions

Projections are as-of-week with no lookahead · usage from official play-by-play and snap counts · 2026 week 7