Demond Claiborne

Minnesota Vikings · Running backRB2

5′10″, 188 lb · age 23 · Wake Forest · 2026 draft, round 6

Week 5 stats

Sun Oct 11, at NO: Demond Claiborne caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards on 6% of snaps.

Stats through week 5; the week 7 projection below. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Full game log.

Demond Claiborne has no full prior season to anchor to, so this week’s projection leans on his 4 games of current-season usage alone — treat it as a thinner read than a veteran’s.

Week 7 projection

PPR points

1.4

RB76 this week

Receptions

0.7

Receiving yards

Anytime TD

13%

He is the third-down option, a role that runs slightly ahead of trailing form: +0.13 receptions.

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.

Demond Claiborne 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	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7 projected
26 wk5	NO	6%	3.4%	1	1	6	0	0	0	0.6 +0.4
26 wk4	MIA	12%	0.0%	0	0	0	3	12	0	0.8 -0.8
26 wk3	TB	5%	0.0%	0	0	0	3	1	0	0.9 -0.9
26 wk2	CHI	4%	5.3%	1	1	2	0	0	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.

Demond Claiborne 2026 stats

Through 4 games of 2026, Demond Claiborne has 2 catches for 8 receiving yards (0.5 catches and 2.0 yards a game), on 7% 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 (4 games)
Catches per game	0.5
Receiving yards per game	2.0
Target share	2.2%

The whole Minnesota Vikings roomEvery pass-catcher ranked by the usage that predicts production

Related players

The rest of the Minnesota Vikings running back room, by target share.

Ranked next to him at RB for week 7.

Tyler Goodson RB73 · DAL
Zavier Scott RB74 · CHI
Anthony Tyus III RB75 · CAR
Patrick Ricard RB77 · NYG
Brashard Smith RB78 · KC
Carlos Washington RB79 · MIA

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