TE · Baltimore Ravens · week 6 vs Cleveland Browns · Sun Oct 18 · 1:00 PM ET
Nick Vannett
ROLE in the rotation
CLASS 2016 · R3 P94
EXP 10 seasons
AGE 32 and over
DEPTH TE4
99%PLAYEXPECTED
As of week 6, Nick Vannett was a TE for BAL, age 33.5, 10 seasons of experience, drafted in round 3. In 2026 through week 5 he had played 1 game on 25% of snaps. Before 2026 he played 125 games (postseason included) over 10 seasons. His injury history held 14 episodes (back 3, ankle 2, concussion 2), 2 of them reaching OUT, 6 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was an abdomen injury in 2025 week 16.
The full read
How our call moved this week
100500
89%89%89%93%93%93%94%94%94%99%99%99%99%99%
Thu 7:01 AM ETSun 12:02 PM ET
our call, P(plays)
89% EXPECTED → 99% EXPECTED
Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.
In short
Nick Vannett is in the rotation at tight end for BAL — 40% of the snaps in his best week of 2. He has a knee injury. 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 78 hours before kickoff.
The reader concurs · grade B
The club's own in-window report has Vannett practicing FULL with the knee on Thursday, explicitly upgraded from limited (P2: "tight end Nick Vannett (knee) were all upgraded from limited to full"), and P1 lists him in the full-participation block with the knee. The knee is a current but improving issue, trending the right way from Wednesday's limited session (P4), and no game-status designation has been filed yet because the final report was due Friday afternoon (P1). His role is real rather than marginal — he was signed off the practice squad specifically to fill the injured Smythe's role (P3) — so nothing in the prose contradicts the PLAY call; the only gap is the unseen Friday designation. It would need to know: Friday Oct 16 final Week 6 injury report game-status designation for Vannett vs Cleveland (Questionable/Doubtful/Out); Any Harbaugh or club remark this week specifically on Vannett's knee or his snap role Sunday; Saturday Oct 17 inactives/roster-move news, including whether Matthew Hibner (hand) is back, which would affect Vannett's TE snaps
What the read cites
What was reported
Source
1
“tight end Nick Vannett (knee) were all upgraded from limited to full”
Pro Football Talk · 2026-10-15
2
“TE Nick Vannett (knee) *”
Baltimore Beatdown · 2026-10-16
3
“Baltimore's final Week 6 injury report will be posted on Friday afternoon, which will determine the final status for several of these”
Baltimore Beatdown · 2026-10-16
4
“Limited participation”
Baltimore Beatdown · 2026-10-14
5
“The Ravens also signed veteran Nick Vannett from their practice squad to help fill Smythe's role.”
Baltimore Beatdown · 2026-10-15
14versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
EXPECTED since Thu Oct 15 · 7:01 AM ET · 78 h before kickoff. Biggest move: 94% → 99%, Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM ET to Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET, with no club report in between.
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
Snap share32.5% range 25–40
wk 5–6 · 2 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
25%wk 5
40%wk 6
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
1
0
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 6
knee
1
—
2025 · wk 16
abdomen
1
—
2024 · wk 10
neck
1
—
2023 · wk 16
back
2
Questionable
2023 · wk 12
concussion
3
Out
2022 · wk 16
shoulder
1
—
2021 · wk 17
ankle
1
—
2020 · wk 9
foot
1
Questionable
2019 · wk 16
illness
1
—
2019 · wk 12
illness
1
—
2018 · wk 6
back
2
Questionable
2017 · wk 17
back
1
Questionable
2017 · wk 16
shoulder
1
Questionable
2017 · wk 1
concussion
1
—
2016 · wk 1
ankle
5
Out
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 15 episodes · 23 weeks on a report · same site more than once: back ×3
2016
ankle · 5w
2017
back · 1wshoulder · 1wconcussion · 1w
2018
back · 2w
2019
illness · 1willness · 1w
2020
foot · 1w
2021
ankle · 1w
2022
shoulder · 1w
2023
back · 2wconcussion · 3w
2024
neck · 1w
2025
abdomen · 1w
2026
knee · 1w
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 6PLAY 89% ✓ rightbefore his team said anything; played
Season on him: 1 of 1 graded call 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
Calais Campbell
DT
DNP
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Ronnie Stanley
T
DNP
ours
PLAY
75%
LIKELY
Marlon Humphrey
CB
FULL
ours
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
Ethan Pocic
C
UNK
team's word
—
Trey Hendrickson
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
Mark Andrews
TE
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Lamar Jackson
QB
DNP
team's word
Out
Durham Smythe
TE
UNK
team's word
—
Broderick Washington
DE
DNP
team's word
Out
Danny Pinter
G
UNK
team's word
—
John Simpson
G
LTD
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
K'Von Wallace
SAF
UNK
team's word
—
Rashod Bateman
WR
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Skylar Thompson
QB
UNK
team's word
—
Kyle Hamilton
S
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Cam Jurgens
C
LTD
team's word
Out
Andrew Vorhees
G
LTD
ours
PLAY
59%
COIN FLIP
Trenton Simpson
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
95%
EXPECTED
Jovaughn Gwyn
C
UNK
team's word
—
Zay Flowers
WR
LTD
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Roger Rosengarten
T
FULL
ours
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
T.J. Tampa
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Emery Jones Jr.
G
LTD
ours
SIT
49%
COIN FLIP
Teddye Buchanan
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
92%
EXPECTED
Bilhal Kone
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Mike Green
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
85%
EXPECTED
Ja'Kobi Lane
WR
FULL
team's word
Questionable
Elijah Sarratt
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Matthew Hibner
TE
DNP
team's word
Out
Adam Randall
RB
UNK
team's word
—
Jahquez Robinson
SAF
UNK
team's word
—
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
Profile — as of week 6
Role
TE4 · 25% snaps
Season
2026 · 1 game through wk 5
Career
10 seasons · 125 games before 2026
Injuries
14 episodes · last: abdomen, 2025 wk 16
Bio
age 33.5 · 10 seasons' experience · drafted round 3
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.
in the rotation at tight end — 40% of the snaps in his best week of 2
Listed on the depth chart
number 4 at tight end
Snaps played
33% a week on average over 2 weeks, 40% at his highest, 17% on special teams
Build
6 ft 6 in · 257 lb
College
Ohio State
Drafted
2016, round 3 pick 94, by SEA
Age
32 and over at the season's start
Experience
10 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
Thu Oct 15 · 7:01 AM ET
78 h
PLAY
89%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Thu Oct 15 · 12:01 PM ET
73 h
PLAY
89%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Thu Oct 15 · 5:01 PM ET
68 h
PLAY
89%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 7:01 AM ET
54 h
PLAY
93%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 12:01 PM ET
49 h
PLAY
93%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 3:49 PM ET
45 h
PLAY
93%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 5:02 PM ET
44 h
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 5:21 PM ET
44 h
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM ET
41 h
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET
30 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 17 · 12:02 PM ET
25 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET
20 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET
6 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sun Oct 18 · 12:02 PM ET
1 h
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
14 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
6
LTD
89%
PLAY
before his team said anything
yes
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.