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If Brenton Strange is out, who gets his targets?

The Jacksonville Jaguars room absorbs +1.78 receptions, and Nate Boerkircher takes the largest single share at +0.72. 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 Brenton Strange sitsNate Boerkircher+0.7TE 50% snapsTanner Koziol+0.7TE 5% snapsParker Washingt…+0.1WR 74% snapsJakobi Meyers+0.1WR 79% snapsBrian Thomas Jr.+0.1WR 42% snapsJosh Cameron+0.1WR 29% snapsCJ Williams+0.1WR 18% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Parker Washington WR · 74% snaps4.504.57+0.07
Jakobi Meyers WR · 79% snaps4.004.07+0.07
Brenton Strange TE · 76% snaps3.30—OUT
Brian Thomas Jr. WR · 42% snaps2.702.77+0.07
Bhayshul Tuten RB · 49% snaps1.501.50+0.00
Ameer Abdullah RB · 10% snaps0.900.90+0.00
Josh Cameron WR · 29% snaps0.900.97+0.07
LeQuint Allen Jr. RB · 12% snaps0.700.70+0.00
CJ Williams WR · 18% snaps0.600.67+0.07
Tanner Koziol TE · 5% snaps0.601.31+0.71
Nate Boerkircher TE · 50% snaps0.501.22+0.72

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.

Brenton Strange’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 4