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If J.K. Dobbins is out, who gets his targets?

The Denver Broncos room absorbs +1.51 receptions, and RJ Harvey takes the largest single share at +0.47. 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 J.K. Dobbins sitsRJ Harvey+0.5RB 44% snapsTyler Badie+0.5RB 22% snapsJonah Coleman+0.5RB 23% snapsNate Adkins+0.0TE 32% snapsAdam Trautman+0.0TE 47% snapsEvan Engram+0.0TE 58% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Courtland Sutton WR · 79% snaps4.004.00+0.00
Jaylen Waddle WR · 70% snaps3.503.50+0.00
RJ Harvey RB · 44% snaps3.103.57+0.47
Pat Bryant WR · 65% snaps2.402.40+0.00
Evan Engram TE · 58% snaps2.102.13+0.03
Troy Franklin WR · 24% snaps1.901.90+0.00
Marvin Mims Jr. WR · 18% snaps1.601.60+0.00
Jonah Coleman RB · 23% snaps1.501.96+0.46
Tyler Badie RB · 22% snaps1.301.77+0.47
Nate Adkins TE · 32% snaps1.101.14+0.04
Adam Trautman TE · 47% snaps1.101.14+0.04
J.K. Dobbins RB · 42% snaps0.90—OUT
Kolbe Katsis WR · 0% snaps0.900.90+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+0.1122,0942.36
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.

J.K. Dobbins’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