P · Arizona Cardinals · week 6 vs Los Angeles Rams · Sun Oct 18 · 4:05 PM ET
Blake Gillikin
ROLE a backup
EXP 6 seasons
AGE 25-28
DEPTH P1
As of week 6, Blake Gillikin was a P for ARI, age 28.6, 6 seasons of experience. In 2026 through week 5 he was listed at depth rank 1 on his club's depth chart; he had played 5 games on 0% of snaps. Before 2026 he played 65 games (postseason included) over 5 seasons. His injury history held 7 episodes (back 4, foot 1, groin 1), 2 of them reaching OUT, 3 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was a groin injury in 2026 week 1.
The full read
How our call moved this week
100500
his club's word: Questionable92%92%92%92%91%91%
Sat 2:02 AM ETSun 12:02 PM ET
our call, P(plays)
club report (public)
92% EXPECTED → 91% EXPECTED
Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.
In short
Blake Gillikin is a backup at punter for ARI — 0% of the snaps in his best week of 6. He has a back injury. This week he practised limited. His team has listed him Questionable.
The reader concurs · grade B
The final injury report for this game lists Gillikin as questionable with a back issue, not out (P1), which is exactly the questionable-plus-limited cell the model priced. The club used the 'out' category for three other Cardinals including Jeremiyah Love (P1), so placing Gillikin among the four questionable players is a deliberate distinction rather than blanket hedging. Nothing in the passage contradicts the PLAY call; the only gap is the absence of any Saturday or gameday word, and no replacement punter is mentioned anywhere (P1). It would need to know: Sunday 18 Oct ARI inactives list at LAR; Whether Arizona signed or elevated a practice-squad punter for Sunday 18 Oct; Any Saturday 17 Oct Jonathan Gannon remark on Gillikin's back; Whether a kicker or another player was taking punt reps late in the week
What the read cites
What was reported
Source
1
“running back Jeremiyah Love (ankle) is among three players ruled out, while punter Blake Gillikin (back) is one of four players listed as questionable”
Los Angeles Rams · 2026-10-16
6versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
EXPECTED since Sat Oct 17 · 2:16 AM ET · 38 h before kickoff · after the club said it (0 h). Biggest move: 92% → 91%, Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET to Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET, with no club report in between.
His team's word: Questionable
This is the TEAM'S OWN ANNOUNCEMENT, not a reading of ours. His team filed him on the injury report and we are restating it so the record is complete. There is nothing early about repeating an announcement — what we say ahead of one is on the week's page. Source: his team's published inactive list, on the day.
Practice this week
Fri
LPdated Fri Oct 16
Shape of the week: single reading. Only days the publisher dated are shown; a day we could not date is left out until the nightly sweep stamps it. The shape is a fact, not a forecast.
Head start
His club's word
Kickoff
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
Snap share0.0% range 0–0
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
0%wk 1
0%wk 2
0%wk 3
0%wk 4
0%wk 5
0%wk 6
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
2
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
back
1
Questionable
2026 · wk 1
groin
1
—
2025 · wk 6
back
1
Out
2025 · wk 2
back
1
Questionable
2024 · wk 15
right foot
1
Out
2023 · wk 15
back
1
Questionable
2021 · wk 7
illness
1
—
2020 · wk 1
back
1
—
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 8 episodes · 8 weeks on a report · same site more than once: back ×5
2020
back · 1w
2021
illness · 1w
2023
back · 1w
2024
foot · 1w
2025
back · 1wback · 1w
2026
back · 1wgroin · 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 92% ✓ rightafter his team's announcement; 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
Isaac Seumalo
G
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Andrew Billings
DT
UNK
team's word
—
James Conner
RB
UNK
team's word
—
Budda Baker
S
DNP
team's word
Questionable
Josh Sweat
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Andrew Wingard
S
DNP
team's word
Out
Devin Duvernay
WR
LTD
ours
PLAY
98%
EXPECTED
Zaven Collins
LB
DNP
team's word
Questionable
Hunter Long
TE
UNK
team's word
—
Joey Blount
SAF
UNK
team's word
—
Zachary Carter
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Paris Johnson Jr.
OT
UNK
team's word
—
Jerrick Reed II
SAF
UNK
team's word
—
Starling Thomas V
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Tip Reiman
TE
UNK
team's word
—
Isaiah Adams
G
UNK
team's word
—
Trey Benson
RB
UNK
team's word
—
Kitan Crawford
S
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Will Johnson
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Jeremiyah Love
RB
DNP
team's word
Out
Jameson Geers
TE
UNK
team's word
—
Wydett Williams Jr.
S
DNP
team's word
Out
Chase Bisontis
OT
UNK
team's word
—
Kaleb Proctor
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Carson Beck
QB
LTD
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
P1 · 0% snaps
Season
2026 · 5 games through wk 5
Career
5 seasons · 65 games before 2026
Injuries
7 episodes · last: groin, 2026 wk 1
Bio
age 28.6 · 6 seasons' experience
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 backup at punter — 0% of the snaps in his best week of 6
Listed on the depth chart
first at punter
Snaps played
0% a week on average over 6 weeks, 0% at his highest, 35% on special teams
Build
6 ft 2 in · 196 lb
College
Penn State
Drafted
undrafted
Age
25-28 at the season's start
Experience
6 seasons
When this call was made, and when the world knew
Team reportHis team listed him Questionable.
PublicHis team's word was public as soon as it was filed.
KickoffKickoff.
How our call moved, earliest first
When
Lead
Call
Chance he plays
Band
On what
Sat Oct 17 · 2:16 AM ET
38 h
PLAY
92%
EXPECTED
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET
33 h
PLAY
92%
EXPECTED
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 12:02 PM ET
28 h
PLAY
92%
EXPECTED
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET
23 h
PLAY
92%
EXPECTED
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET
9 h
PLAY
91%
EXPECTED
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 12:02 PM ET
4 h
PLAY
91%
EXPECTED
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 3:01 PM ET
1 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's published inactive list, on the day
6 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
92%
PLAY
after his team's announcement
yes
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.