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LB · Tampa Bay Buccaneers · week 7 vs Carolina Panthers · Sun Oct 25 · 1:00 PM ET

Christian Rozeboom

  • ROLE in the rotation
  • EXP 6 seasons
  • AGE 29-31
  • DEPTH LILB3

As of week 7, Christian Rozeboom was an LB for TB, age 29.6, 6 seasons of experience. In 2026 through week 6 he was listed at depth rank 3 on his club's depth chart; he had played 5 games on 20% of snaps; his line was 2.8 tackles a game, 0 sacks a game and 0.5 passes defended a game. Before 2026 he played 84 games (postseason included) over 5 seasons. His injury history held 7 episodes (hip 2, neck 2, arm 1), 1 of them reaching OUT, 2 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was a foot injury in 2026 week 2.

The full read

How our call moved in week 7

  • our call, P(plays)

78% LIKELY → 87% EXPECTED

Every call we wrote for him in week 7, earliest first, as written.

In short

Christian Rozeboom is in the rotation at left inside linebacker for TB — 51% of the snaps in his best week of 5. He has a finger injury. His team has not listed him on the final report. We called him PLAY in week 7 and he did not play.

The reader concurs · grade C

The only club documents we hold show Rozeboom as a full non-participant with a finger injury on Wednesday (P3) and again on Thursday (P2), with no game-status designation attached in either report — two consecutive DNPs on the practice axis support a SIT call rather than contradict it. P1 establishes he is a genuine rotational linebacker at 32% of defensive snaps behind/alongside Anzalone and Trotter, so his absence is plausible without disrupting the starting lineup, and nothing in the prose suggests an upgrade. No passage covers Friday or Saturday practice, a final designation, or any roster transaction, so the near-zero probability driven by roster_res is unverified but also uncontradicted. It would need to know: Buccaneers Friday 23 Oct and Saturday 24 Oct injury reports — Rozeboom's practice status and his final Out/Doubtful/Questionable game designation for the 25 Oct game; Any Tampa Bay roster transaction involving Rozeboom between 22 and 25 Oct (IR placement, release, waiver) that would explain the roster_res zero; A Todd Bowles comment on the severity of the finger injury — fracture, splint, surgery, or whether he can play it taped/with a club; The Sunday 25 Oct game-day inactive list for Tampa Bay

What the read cites

What was reportedSource
1“Christian Rozeboom (finger) did not participate in practice”Tampa Bay Buccaneers · 2026-10-21
2“Christian Rozeboom (finger) did not participate in practice”Tampa Bay Buccaneers · 2026-10-22
3“joined fellow off-ball linebackers Alex Anzalone and Josiah Trotter on the field for 32% of the defensive snaps against Pittsburgh”Tampa Bay Buccaneers · 2026-10-20
7versions in week 7
9average, every player
29most for one player

How the call moved

EXPECTED since Thu Oct 22 · 5:22 PM ET · 68 h before kickoff. Biggest move: 66% → 87%, Thu Oct 22 · 5:05 PM ET to Thu Oct 22 · 5:22 PM ET, with no club report in between.

His team's own announcement

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 reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended).

No dated practice report for him in week 7

The team has not published one we can date, or the window has not reached it. Not the same as his having practiced.

Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range

  • Tackles / game2.8 range 1.0–4.0

    wk 3–6 · 4 games

  • Sacks / game0.0 range 0.0–0.0

    wk 3–6 · 4 games

  • Passes defended / game0.5 range 0.0–1.0

    wk 3–6 · 4 games

  • Snap share20.4% range 0–51

    wk 2–6 · 5 games

Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share

  1. 0%wk 2
  2. 51%wk 3
  3. 12%wk 4
  4. 7%wk 5
  5. 32%wk 6

Missed while on the injury report

SeasonWeeks on the reportMissed while listed
202632

Only the weeks he was on the injury report with a recorded result — not every game of his career.

Medical history

WhenInjuryWeeks on a reportWorst status
2026 · wk 7hand1—
2026 · wk 1foot2Questionable
2025 · wk 12hip3Out
2024 · wk 10neck1Questionable
2024 · wk 2hip1—
2023 · wk 6thigh1—
2023 · wk 5neck1—
2021 · wk 22arm1—

Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.

Injury history by season · 8 episodes · 11 weeks on a report · same site more than once: hip ×2

  • 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. One that began after week 18 is in the table above and not drawn here.

Our past calls vs what happened

Wk 7PLAY 78% ✗ missafter his team's announcement; did not play

Season on him: 0 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 in week 7

PlayerPosPracticeWhose wordCallChance he playsBand
A'Shawn RobinsonDTFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Riley DixonPFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Chris Godwin Jr.WRFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Vita VeaDTFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Baker MayfieldQBFULLteam's wordQuestionable
Chase McLaughlinKFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
David SillsWRFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Antoine Winfield Jr.SLTDteam's wordOut
Zyon McCollumCBFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Luke GoedekeTLTDteam's wordOut
Sean TuckerRBFULLoursPLAY92%EXPECTED
Josh HayesDBUNKteam's word—
Calijah KanceyDTFULLoursPLAY97%EXPECTED
Cody MauchGFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Bucky IrvingRBFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Emeka EgbukaWRLTDteam's wordOut
Benjamin MorrisonCBFULLoursPLAY97%EXPECTED
DeMonte CapehartDTUNKteam's word—
Billy SchrauthGUNKteam's word—
Ayden GarnesCBUNKteam's word—
Josiah TrotterLBFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED

The model reads the room: who else is out shifts what his own designation is worth.

The evidence behind his earlier calls

The evidence behind the call made Wed Oct 21 · 4:20 PM ET

We have not read the news for this player this week.

The evidence behind the call made Wed Oct 21 · 5:05 PM ET

We have not read the news for this player this week.

The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 22 · 2:10 AM ET

We have not read the news for this player this week.

The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 22 · 7:02 AM ET

We have not read the news for this player this week.

The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 22 · 12:05 PM ET

We read the news; nothing was attributed.

The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 22 · 5:05 PM ET

We read the news; nothing was attributed.

The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 22 · 5:22 PM ET

We read the news; nothing was attributed.

The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 24 · 12:50 AM ET

We read the news for this call. The quotes we found are not shown publicly.

The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 24 · 7:02 AM ET

We read the news for this call. The quotes we found are not shown publicly.

The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 24 · 12:02 PM ET

We read the news for this call. The quotes we found are not shown publicly.

The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 24 · 5:02 PM ET

We read the news for this call. The quotes we found are not shown publicly.

The evidence behind the call made Sun Oct 25 · 7:05 AM ET

We read the news for this call. The quotes we found are not shown publicly.

The evidence behind the call made Sun Oct 25 · 12:05 PM ET

We read the news for this call. The quotes we found are not shown publicly.

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 7

RoleLB3 · 20% snaps
Season2026 · 5 games through wk 6
Per game2.8 tackles · 0 sacks · 0.5 passes defended
Career5 seasons · 84 games before 2026
Injuries7 episodes · last: foot, 2026 wk 2
Bioage 29.6 · 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.

nflverse injuries_2026.csv

About him

About himAs the record holds it
His rolein the rotation at left inside linebacker — 51% of the snaps in his best week of 5
Listed on the depth chartthird at left inside linebacker
Last weekHe did not dress last week
Snaps played20% a week on average over 5 weeks, 51% at his highest, 60% on special teams
Build6 ft 2 in · 230 lb
CollegeSouth Dakota State
Draftedundrafted
Age29-31 at the season's start
Experience6 seasons

When this call was made, and when the world knew

  1. PublicHis team's word was public as soon as it was filed.
  2. KickoffKickoff.

How our call moved, earliest first

WhenLeadCallChance he playsBandOn what
Wed Oct 21 · 4:20 PM ET93 hPLAY78%LIKELYafter his team's announcement
Wed Oct 21 · 5:05 PM ET92 hPLAY78%LIKELYafter his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 2:10 AM ET83 hPLAY66%LIKELYafter his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 7:02 AM ET78 hPLAY66%LIKELYafter his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 12:05 PM ET73 hPLAY66%LIKELYafter his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 5:05 PM ET68 hPLAY66%LIKELYafter his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 5:22 PM ET68 hPLAY87%EXPECTEDbefore his team said anything
Sat Oct 24 · 12:50 AM ET36 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sat Oct 24 · 7:02 AM ET30 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sat Oct 24 · 12:02 PM ET25 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sat Oct 24 · 5:02 PM ET20 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sun Oct 25 · 7:05 AM ET6 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sun Oct 25 · 12:05 PM ET1 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)

7 calls in week 7, flipping between PLAY and SIT 1 time. 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.

We went and found out more

Rank 2 (listed second on his depth chart), 8 documents deep, because: llm_unsure. Fetched 8 of 8.

His record this season

WkPracticeChance he playsCallSourcePlayed
7UNK78%PLAYafter his team's announcementno

A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.