Zachariah Branch

Atlanta Falcons · Wide receiverWR3

5′10″, 180 lb · age 22 · Georgia; USC · 2026 draft, round 3

Week 6 stats

Sun Oct 18, vs CHI: Zachariah Branch caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards on 35% of snaps.

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

Zachariah Branch 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

3.9

WR89 this week

Receptions

1.6

Receiving yards

Anytime TD

16%

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 4 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.

Zachariah Branch 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	TD	We said
26 wk7	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6 projected
26 wk6	CHI	35%	6.1%	2	2	9	0	1.3 +0.7
26 wk5	BAL	19%	5.9%	2	2	15	0	1.2 +0.8
26 wk4	NO	23%	10.0%	2	2	10	0	0.9 +1.1
26 wk3	GB	18%	8.7%	2	1	7	0	1.1 -0.1
26 wk2	CAR	20%	6.5%	2	2	14	0	—
26 wk1	PIT	30%	0.0%	0	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.

Zachariah Branch 2026 stats

Through 6 games of 2026, Zachariah Branch has 9 catches for 55 receiving yards (1.5 catches and 9.2 yards a game), on 24% 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	1.5
Receiving yards per game	9.2
Target share	6.2%

The whole Atlanta Falcons roomEvery pass-catcher ranked by the usage that predicts production

Related players

The rest of the Atlanta Falcons receiver room, by target share.

Ranked next to him at WR for week 7.

Jalen Royals WR86 · KC
Jordan Watkins WR87 · SF
Troy Franklin WR88 · DEN
Bryce Lance WR90 · NO
Tez Johnson WR91 · TB
Ashton Dulin WR92 · IND

What we have measured about wide receivers

Are players better coming off a bye week?They are slightly worse Do defenses shut down the other team’s best receiver?Barely

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