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
100500
78%78%66%66%66%66%87%
Wed 4:20 PM ETThu 5:22 PM ET
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 reported
Source
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
0%wk 2
51%wk 3
12%wk 4
7%wk 5
32%wk 6
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
3
2
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 7
hand
1
—
2026 · wk 1
foot
2
Questionable
2025 · wk 12
hip
3
Out
2024 · wk 10
neck
1
Questionable
2024 · wk 2
hip
1
—
2023 · wk 6
thigh
1
—
2023 · wk 5
neck
1
—
2021 · wk 22
arm
1
—
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
2023
thigh · 1wneck · 1w
2024
neck · 1whip · 1w
2025
hip · 3w
2026
hand · 1wfoot · 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. 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
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
A'Shawn Robinson
DT
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Riley Dixon
P
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Chris Godwin Jr.
WR
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Vita Vea
DT
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Baker Mayfield
QB
FULL
team's word
Questionable
Chase McLaughlin
K
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
David Sills
WR
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Antoine Winfield Jr.
S
LTD
team's word
Out
Zyon McCollum
CB
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Luke Goedeke
T
LTD
team's word
Out
Sean Tucker
RB
FULL
ours
PLAY
92%
EXPECTED
Josh Hayes
DB
UNK
team's word
—
Calijah Kancey
DT
FULL
ours
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
Cody Mauch
G
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Bucky Irving
RB
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Emeka Egbuka
WR
LTD
team's word
Out
Benjamin Morrison
CB
FULL
ours
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
DeMonte Capehart
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Billy Schrauth
G
UNK
team's word
—
Ayden Garnes
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Josiah Trotter
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
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
Role
LB3 · 20% snaps
Season
2026 · 5 games through wk 6
Per game
2.8 tackles · 0 sacks · 0.5 passes defended
Career
5 seasons · 84 games before 2026
Injuries
7 episodes · last: foot, 2026 wk 2
Bio
age 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.
in the rotation at left inside linebacker — 51% of the snaps in his best week of 5
Listed on the depth chart
third at left inside linebacker
Last week
He did not dress last week
Snaps played
20% a week on average over 5 weeks, 51% at his highest, 60% on special teams
Build
6 ft 2 in · 230 lb
College
South Dakota State
Drafted
undrafted
Age
29-31 at the season's start
Experience
6 seasons
When this call was made, and when the world knew
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
Wed Oct 21 · 4:20 PM ET
93 h
PLAY
78%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Wed Oct 21 · 5:05 PM ET
92 h
PLAY
78%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 2:10 AM ET
83 h
PLAY
66%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 7:02 AM ET
78 h
PLAY
66%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 12:05 PM ET
73 h
PLAY
66%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 5:05 PM ET
68 h
PLAY
66%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 5:22 PM ET
68 h
PLAY
87%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 24 · 12:50 AM ET
36 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sat Oct 24 · 7:02 AM ET
30 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sat Oct 24 · 12:02 PM ET
25 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sat Oct 24 · 5:02 PM ET
20 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sun Oct 25 · 7:05 AM ET
6 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sun Oct 25 · 12:05 PM ET
1 h
his 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
Wk
Practice
Chance he plays
Call
Source
Played
7
UNK
78%
PLAY
after his team's announcement
no
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.