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If Kalif Raymond is out, who gets his targets?

The Chicago Bears room absorbs +0.94 receptions, and Zavion Thomas 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 Kalif Raymond sitsZavion Thomas+0.2WR 3% snapsKaden Davis+0.2WR 13% snapsLuther Burden I…+0.2WR 65% snapsRome Odunze+0.2WR 66% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Luther Burden III WR · 65% snaps4.004.23+0.23
Kalif Raymond WR · 61% snaps3.60—OUT
Rome Odunze WR · 66% snaps3.503.73+0.23
Colston Loveland TE · 86% snaps3.303.30+0.00
D'Andre Swift RB · 62% snaps2.302.30+0.00
Cole Kmet TE · 63% snaps1.701.70+0.00
Kyle Monangai RB · 38% snaps1.501.50+0.00
Sam Roush TE · 22% snaps0.700.70+0.00
Zavion Thomas WR · 3% snaps0.700.94+0.24
Kaden Davis WR · 13% snaps0.500.74+0.24

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.

Kalif Raymond’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