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If Jalen Coker is out, who gets his targets?

The Carolina Panthers room absorbs +1.16 receptions, and John Metchie III takes the largest single share at +0.24. 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 Jalen Coker sitsJohn Metchie III+0.2WR 34% snapsTetairoa McMill…+0.2WR 86% snapsXavier Legette+0.2WR 52% snapsBrycen Tremayne+0.2WR 39% snapsDavid Moore+0.2WR 6% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Jalen Coker WR · 65% snaps4.20—OUT
Tetairoa McMillan WR · 86% snaps4.104.33+0.23
Darren Waller TE · 43% snaps2.802.80+0.00
Chuba Hubbard RB · 73% snaps2.602.60+0.00
Tommy Tremble TE · 53% snaps2.202.20+0.00
Mitchell Evans TE · 42% snaps1.601.60+0.00
Xavier Legette WR · 52% snaps1.401.63+0.23
Brycen Tremayne WR · 39% snaps1.201.43+0.23
John Metchie III WR · 34% snaps1.101.34+0.24
David Moore WR · 6% snaps0.801.03+0.23
Jonathon Brooks RB · 24% snaps0.800.80+0.00
AJ Dillon RB · 11% snaps0.600.60+0.00
Anthony Tyus III RB · 0% snaps0.600.60+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+0.5841,53711.16
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.

Jalen Coker’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