FB · San Francisco 49ers · week 6 vs Washington Commanders · Mon Oct 19 · 8:15 PM ET
Kyle Juszczyk
TYPE Committee back
ROLE a starter
CLASS 2013 · R4 P130
EXP 13 seasons
AGE 32 and over
DEPTH FB1
99%PLAYEXPECTED
As of week 6, Kyle Juszczyk was an FB for SF, age 35.4, 13 seasons of experience, drafted in round 4. In 2026 through week 5 he was listed at depth rank 1 on his club's depth chart; he had played 4 games on 48% of snaps; his line was 0 rush yards a game, 0 carries a game and 18.3 receiving yards a game (Committee back by the published rule). Before 2026 he played 172 games (postseason included) over 10 seasons with 10 Pro Bowls, 2 first-team All-Pro and 1 second-team All-Pro. His injury history held 14 episodes (illness 3, concussion 2, hand 2), 3 of them reaching OUT, 4 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was a hand injury in 2026 week 2.
The full read
How our call moved this week
100500
99%99%99%99%99%99%99%99%99%99%99%99%99%99%99%
Fri 7:01 AM ETMon 5:01 PM ET
our call, P(plays)
99% EXPECTED → 99% EXPECTED
Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.
In short
Kyle Juszczyk is a starter at fullback for SF — 56% of the snaps in his best week of 5. He has a knee injury. His team named him inactive in week 5. His team has not listed him on the final report. We say he plays — 99%, in a band that plays 96% of the time. We have said PLAY since 85 hours before kickoff. We called him PLAY in week 5 and he did not play.
The reader concurs · grade B
The club's Friday participation report headline states Juszczyk practiced in full, and he is absent from the enumerated list of Friday non-participants (P1) — a practice-axis signal consistent with availability. No passage carries any game designation, 'doubtful', or coach remark casting doubt on Monday (P1), so there is nothing written that contradicts a PLAY call. The limitation is coverage, not conflict: the record stops on Friday 16 Oct (P1) and says nothing about the final two practice days or the game status axis, which is why this is B and not A. It would need to know: 49ers official practice participation report for Sat 17 Oct and Sun 18 Oct — was Juszczyk still listed as a full participant?; Final injury report game designation for Juszczyk (Questionable/Doubtful/Out/none) for Monday 19 Oct; A Kyle Shanahan or John Lynch comment dated 17-18 Oct naming Juszczyk and his knee; Whether a fullback or extra TE was signed or elevated from the practice squad for Monday, implying a planned Juszczyk absence; Monday 19 Oct inactives list for San Francisco
“Here were the players who did not participate during Friday's practice:”
Niners Nation · 2026-10-16
3
“Nick Bosa missed for the second day in a row. With the 49ers playing on a short week”
Niners Nation · 2026-10-16
15versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
EXPECTED since Fri Oct 16 · 7:01 AM ET · 85 h before kickoff.
This week's call
NOT EXPECTEDUNLIKELYCOIN FLIPLIKELYEXPECTED
99% · EXPECTED
we expect him to play — this band plays 96% of the time (96–97%), measured out of fold. We stand behind this one.
No dated practice report for him this week
The team has not published one we can date, or the window has not reached it. Not the same as his having practiced.
Head start
Our call
Kickoff
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
Rush yds / game0.0 range 0.0–0.0
wk 2–6 · 4 games
Carries / game0.0 range 0.0–0.0
wk 2–6 · 4 games
Rec yds / game16 range 0.0–28
wk 2–6 · 4 games
Snap share49.6% range 41–56
wk 1–6 · 5 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
51%wk 1
44%wk 2
56%wk 3
41%wk 4
56%wk 6
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
4
1
Only the weeks he was on the injury report with a recorded result — not every game of his career.
Medical history
When
Injury
Weeks on a report
Worst status
2026 · wk 5
knee
2
Out
2026 · wk 1
hand
2
—
2025 · wk 18
hip
1
—
2025 · wk 15
chest
1
—
2025 · wk 3
concussion
1
—
2024 · wk 17
illness
1
—
2024 · wk 5
shoulder
1
—
2023 · wk 18
illness
1
Questionable
2022 · wk 8
hand
2
Out
2019 · wk 6
knee
5
Out
2017 · wk 10
neck
1
—
2017 · wk 6
back
3
Out
2017 · wk 4
concussion
1
Questionable
2015 · wk 17
illness
1
Probable
2014 · wk 12
foot
1
Probable
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 15 episodes · 24 weeks on a report · same site more than once: illness ×3
2014
foot · 1w
2015
illness · 1w
2017
neck · 1wback · 3wconcussion · 1w
2019
knee · 5w
2022
hand · 2w
2023
illness · 1w
2024
illness · 1wshoulder · 1w
2025
hip · 1wchest · 1wconcussion · 1w
2026
knee · 2whand · 2w
Weeks 1–18
ruled out
questionable
listed, and played
Each bar is one episode: the week it began and how many weeks he was on a report, coloured by the worst status.
Our past calls vs what happened
Wk 5PLAY 69% ✗ missbefore his team said anything; did not play
Wk 6PLAY 99% ✓ rightbefore his team said anything; played
Season on him: 1 of 2 graded calls of ours right. Graded by the record: right or a miss against whether he played. A week we did not call, or his club's own word, is not graded.
The rest of his team's report this week
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
Trent Williams
T
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Mike Evans
WR
DNP
team's word
Questionable
Demarcus Robinson
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Christian McCaffrey
RB
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Siran Neal
S
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Christian Kirk
WR
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Nick Bosa
DE
DNP
team's word
Out
Deebo Samuel Sr.
WR
DNP
team's word
Out
Brett Toth
G
UNK
team's word
—
Austen Pleasants
OL
UNK
team's word
—
Colton McKivitz
T
FULL
ours
PLAY
98%
EXPECTED
Brandon Aiyuk
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Darrick Forrest
SAF
UNK
team's word
—
Naquan Jones
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Garret Wallow
LB
DNP
team's word
Out
Nate Hobbs
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Jake Tonges
TE
UNK
team's word
—
Sam Okuayinonu
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Nick Zakelj
OT
UNK
team's word
—
Andrew Farmer II
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Isaac Guerendo
RB
UNK
team's word
—
Jacob Cowing
WR
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Ricky Pearsall
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Nick Martin
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Upton Stout
CB
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Marques Sigle
S
DNP
team's word
Out
Kurtis Rourke
QB
UNK
team's word
—
Mykel Williams
DE
LTD
team's word
Questionable
C.J. West
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Alfred Collins
DT
UNK
team's word
—
De'Zhaun Stribling
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Kaelon Black
RB
DNP
ours
PLAY
77%
LIKELY
Carver Willis
G
FULL
ours
PLAY
80%
LIKELY
Enrique Cruz Jr.
OT
UNK
team's word
—
Mikail Kamara
DE
UNK
team's word
—
James Thompson Jr.
DT
FULL
ours
PLAY
95%
EXPECTED
Romello Height
DE
LTD
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Gracen Halton
DT
LTD
team's word
Questionable
The model reads the room: who else is out shifts what his own designation is worth.
The data behind this page — the timeline in words, every call and week on record, about him, and what this page does not show
age 35.4 · 13 seasons' experience · drafted round 4
Where the profile comes from
Built from: honors.db; nflverse injuries_2026.csv; medical.db; nflverse players.csv; profile.db; nflverse roster_2026.csv; nflverse roster_weekly_2026.csv; nflverse snap_counts_2026.csv; nflverse stats_player_week_2026.csv. Every number in it is one those sources hold.
a starter at fullback — 56% of the snaps in his best week of 5
Listed on the depth chart
first at fullback
Last week
He did not dress last week
Snaps played
50% a week on average over 5 weeks, 56% at his highest, 16% on special teams
Build
6 ft 2 in · 235 lb
College
Harvard
Drafted
2013, round 4 pick 130, by BAL
Age
32 and over at the season's start
Experience
13 seasons
When this call was made, and when the world knew
WrittenWe first said PLAY.
PublicOur call became public, at kickoff.
KickoffKickoff.
How our call moved, earliest first
When
Lead
Call
Chance he plays
Band
On what
Fri Oct 16 · 7:01 AM ET
85 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 12:01 PM ET
80 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 3:49 PM ET
76 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 5:02 PM ET
75 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 5:21 PM ET
75 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM ET
72 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET
61 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 17 · 12:02 PM ET
56 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET
51 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET
37 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sun Oct 18 · 12:02 PM ET
32 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sun Oct 18 · 5:05 PM ET
27 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Mon Oct 19 · 7:01 AM ET
13 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Mon Oct 19 · 12:02 PM ET
8 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Mon Oct 19 · 5:01 PM ET
3 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
15 calls this week, and the call never flipped between PLAY and SIT. Each lead time is the one that call actually had when it was written — never recounted from now. A call that changes is the record working: new evidence arrived and we said so, in public, before the game.
His record this season
Wk
Practice
Chance he plays
Call
Source
Played
5
DNP
69%
PLAY
before his team said anything
no
6
LTD
99%
PLAY
before his team said anything
yes
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.
Named inactive in week 5
The team's own list. We held it before kickoff, so it could have informed a call. Matched to him by his player id.