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If Brock Bowers is out, who gets his targets?

The Las Vegas Raiders room absorbs +1.82 receptions, and Ian Thomas takes the largest single share at +0.84. 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 Brock Bowers sitsIan Thomas+0.8TE 38% snapsMichael Mayer+0.6TE 84% snapsTre Tucker+0.1WR 62% snapsJack Bech+0.1WR 37% snapsJalen Nailor+0.1WR 59% snapsMalik Benson+0.1WR 10% snapsCody White+0.1WR 0% snapsDareke Young+0.1WR 17% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Brock Bowers TE · 79% snaps5.60—OUT
Ashton Jeanty RB · 80% snaps4.004.00+0.00
Michael Mayer TE · 84% snaps3.704.26+0.56
Tre Tucker WR · 62% snaps3.203.27+0.07
Jack Bech WR · 37% snaps1.801.87+0.07
Jalen Nailor WR · 59% snaps1.701.77+0.07
Malik Benson WR · 10% snaps0.800.87+0.07
Cody White WR · 0% snaps0.800.87+0.07
Ian Thomas TE · 38% snaps0.701.54+0.84
Dareke Young WR · 17% snaps0.500.57+0.07

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.

Brock Bowers’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