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If Daniel Bellinger is out, who gets his targets?

The Tennessee Titans room absorbs +0.23 receptions, and Gunnar Helm takes the largest single share at +0.23. 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 Daniel Bellinger sitsGunnar Helm+0.2TE 82% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Wan'Dale Robinson WR · 66% snaps4.504.50+0.00
Carnell Tate WR · 84% snaps4.104.10+0.00
Gunnar Helm TE · 82% snaps3.303.53+0.23
Elic Ayomanor WR · 62% snaps2.602.60+0.00
Tyjae Spears RB · 44% snaps2.202.20+0.00
Tony Pollard RB · 53% snaps2.002.00+0.00
Calvin Ridley WR · 53% snaps1.701.70+0.00
Daniel Bellinger TE · 38% snaps1.30—OUT
Chimere Dike WR · 7% snaps1.201.20+0.00
Nicholas Singleton RB · 11% snaps0.500.50+0.00

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.

Daniel Bellinger’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