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If Carnell Tate is out, who gets his targets?

The Tennessee Titans room absorbs +2.99 receptions, and Calvin Ridley takes the largest single share at +0.71. The work stays overwhelmingly inside the wide receiver 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 Carnell Tate sitsCalvin Ridley+0.7WR 53% snapsChimere Dike+0.7WR 7% snapsElic Ayomanor+0.5WR 62% snapsWan'Dale Robinson+0.4WR 66% snapsGunnar Helm+0.1TE 82% snapsDaniel Bellinger+0.1TE 38% snapsTyjae Spears+0.1RB 44% snapsTony Pollard+0.1RB 53% snapsNicholas Singleton+0.1RB 11% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Wan'Dale Robinson WR · 66% snaps4.404.80+0.40
Carnell Tate WR · 84% snaps4.10—OUT
Gunnar Helm TE · 82% snaps3.303.45+0.15
Elic Ayomanor WR · 62% snaps2.603.10+0.50
Tyjae Spears RB · 44% snaps2.202.33+0.13
Tony Pollard RB · 53% snaps2.002.12+0.12
Calvin Ridley WR · 53% snaps1.602.31+0.71
Daniel Bellinger TE · 38% snaps1.301.45+0.15
Chimere Dike WR · 7% snaps1.101.81+0.71
Nicholas Singleton RB · 11% snaps0.500.62+0.12

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+0.5841,53711.16
Tight ends+0.1751,0803.33
Backs+0.1131,0112.00

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.

Carnell Tate’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