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If Kyren Williams is out, who gets his targets?

The Los Angeles Rams room absorbs +0.64 receptions, and Blake Corum takes the largest single share at +0.49. 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 Kyren Williams sitsBlake Corum+0.5RB 32% snapsTyler Higbee+0.0TE 39% snapsTerrance Fergus…+0.0TE 45% snapsDavis Allen+0.0TE 41% snapsColby Parkinson+0.0TE 64% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Puka Nacua WR · 70% snaps6.106.10+0.00
Davante Adams WR · 67% snaps4.604.60+0.00
Kyren Williams RB · 63% snaps3.00—OUT
Tyler Higbee TE · 39% snaps2.602.64+0.04
Colby Parkinson TE · 64% snaps2.102.13+0.03
Konata Mumpfield WR · 56% snaps2.002.00+0.00
Terrance Ferguson TE · 45% snaps1.701.74+0.04
Davis Allen TE · 41% snaps1.601.64+0.04
Blake Corum RB · 32% snaps1.201.69+0.49
Xavier Smith WR · 37% snaps1.001.00+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.

Kyren Williams’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