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If Gunnar Helm is out, who gets his targets?

The Tennessee Titans room absorbs +0.85 receptions, and Daniel Bellinger takes the largest single share at +0.50. 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 Gunnar Helm sitsDaniel Bellinger+0.5TE 38% snapsWan'Dale Robins…+0.1WR 66% snapsCarnell Tate+0.1WR 84% snapsElic Ayomanor+0.1WR 62% snapsCalvin Ridley+0.1WR 53% snapsChimere Dike+0.1WR 7% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Wan'Dale Robinson WR · 66% snaps4.504.57+0.07
Carnell Tate WR · 84% snaps4.104.17+0.07
Gunnar Helm TE · 82% snaps3.30—OUT
Elic Ayomanor WR · 62% snaps2.602.67+0.07
Tyjae Spears RB · 44% snaps2.202.20+0.00
Tony Pollard RB · 53% snaps2.002.00+0.00
Calvin Ridley WR · 53% snaps1.701.77+0.07
Daniel Bellinger TE · 38% snaps1.301.80+0.50
Chimere Dike WR · 7% snaps1.201.27+0.07
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.

Gunnar Helm’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