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New Orleans Saints

This is a committee. Chris Olave holds 29.6% of the targets, and the 14 tracked pass-catchers project for 28 receptions and 267 receiving yards in week 4.

Who owns the targets

Trailing target share, largest first. Target share reproduces at 0.92 between halves of a season, so this is a stable picture of the pecking order rather than a snapshot of one good game.

30%18%15%11%10%22%Chris OlaveDevaughn VeleJuwan JohnsonAlvin KamaraTravis EtienneEveryone else

Receivers

PlayerSnap shareTarget shareProj. catchesProj. rec yardsIf he sits
Chris Olave WR185%29.6%6.879who benefits
Devaughn Vele WR292%18.1%3.847who benefits
Bryce Lance WR373%6.1%2.023—
Kevin Austin Jr. WR depth9%1.0%0.46—
Barion Brown WR depth6%0.0%0.31—
Jalen Moreno-Cropper WR depth4%0.0%0.91—

Tight ends

PlayerSnap shareTarget shareProj. catchesProj. rec yardsIf he sits
Juwan Johnson TE166%15.3%4.543who benefits
Noah Fant TE247%8.5%2.421who benefits
Oscar Delp TE316%1.6%0.66—
Treyton Welch TE depth9%0.0%0.2-0—

Backs

PlayerSnap shareTarget shareProj. catchesProj. rec yardsIf he sits
Alvin Kamara RB230%10.6%2.615who benefits
Travis Etienne RB150%9.5%2.518who benefits
Kendre Miller RB324%3.8%0.85—
CJ Donaldson RB depth21%1.3%0.53—

The ground game

Projected for 28 carries and 109 rushing yards, with Travis Etienne taking 39% of the work. Carries per game is the second most repeatable thing a player has — 0.97 between halves of a season — so a backfield split holds up far better than a touchdown rate does.

PlayerCarriesRush ydsYds/carryAnytime TD
Travis Etienne RB10.7423.9828%
Alvin Kamara RB9.7373.7521%
Kendre Miller RB7.1304.2225%
11107Travis EtienneAlvin KamaraKendre Miller

Whose role has changed since last season

Snap share this season against last, for anyone who has moved at least six points. This is the input the model leans on hardest early in a year, because snap share is already reliable at 0.84 after two games while receptions manage 0.66.

New Orleans Saints snap share changeDevaughn Vele+41.550→92%Noah Fant+9.438→47%Juwan Johnson-8.775→66%Travis Etienne-9.460→50%Alvin Kamara-33.264→30%Kevin Austin Jr.-35.244→9%points of snap share

Ranked by trailing target share, tie-broken on snap share · concentration measured as a Herfindahl index over the tracked room · projections as-of-week with no lookahead