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If Chig Okonkwo is out, who gets his targets?

The Washington Commanders room absorbs +2.51 receptions, and John Bates takes the largest single share at +0.71. 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 Chig Okonkwo sitsJohn Bates+0.7TE 45% snapsColson Yankoff+0.7TE 26% snapsBen Sinnott+0.6TE 48% snapsStefon Diggs+0.1WR 58% snapsTerry McLaurin+0.1WR 77% snapsAntonio Williams+0.1WR 42% snapsDyami Brown+0.1WR 46% snapsLuke McCaffrey+0.1WR 0% snapsTreylon Burks+0.1WR 33% snapsJaylin Lane+0.1WR 16% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Stefon Diggs WR · 58% snaps4.204.27+0.07
Terry McLaurin WR · 77% snaps3.703.77+0.07
Antonio Williams WR · 42% snaps2.802.87+0.07
Chig Okonkwo TE · 56% snaps2.70—OUT
Rachaad White RB · 45% snaps2.402.40+0.00
Dyami Brown WR · 46% snaps1.501.57+0.07
Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB · 48% snaps1.101.10+0.00
Luke McCaffrey WR · 0% snaps1.001.07+0.07
John Bates TE · 45% snaps1.001.71+0.71
Ben Sinnott TE · 48% snaps0.801.40+0.60
Treylon Burks WR · 33% snaps0.700.77+0.07
Colson Yankoff TE · 26% snaps0.701.41+0.71
Jaylin Lane WR · 16% snaps0.700.77+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.

Chig Okonkwo’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