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If Chuba Hubbard is out, who gets his targets?

The Carolina Panthers room absorbs +1.67 receptions, and Jonathon Brooks takes the largest single share at +0.98. The work stays overwhelmingly inside the running back 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 Chuba Hubbard sitsJonathon Brooks+1.0RB 24% snapsAJ Dillon+0.6RB 11% snapsDarren Waller+0.0TE 43% snapsTommy Tremble+0.0TE 53% snapsMitchell Evans+0.0TE 42% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Jalen Coker WR · 65% snaps4.204.20+0.00
Tetairoa McMillan WR · 86% snaps4.104.10+0.00
Darren Waller TE · 43% snaps2.802.84+0.04
Chuba Hubbard RB · 73% snaps2.60—OUT
Tommy Tremble TE · 53% snaps2.202.24+0.04
Mitchell Evans TE · 42% snaps1.601.64+0.04
Xavier Legette WR · 52% snaps1.401.40+0.00
Brycen Tremayne WR · 39% snaps1.201.20+0.00
John Metchie III WR · 34% snaps1.101.10+0.00
David Moore WR · 6% snaps0.800.80+0.00
Jonathon Brooks RB · 24% snaps0.701.68+0.98
AJ Dillon RB · 11% snaps0.501.07+0.57

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+0.1122,0942.36
Tight ends+0.1031,2582.16
Backs+0.6101,04211.17

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.

Chuba Hubbard’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