S · Denver Broncos · week 7 vs Arizona Cardinals · Sun Oct 25 · 4:05 PM ET
Talanoa Hufanga
ROLE a starter
CLASS 2021 · R5 P180
EXP 5 seasons
AGE 25-28
DEPTH SS1
As of week 7, Talanoa Hufanga was an SAF for DEN, age 26.6, 5 seasons of experience, drafted in round 5. In 2026 through week 6 he was listed at depth rank 1 on his club's depth chart; he had played 5 games on 93% of snaps. Before 2026 he played 73 games (postseason included) over 5 seasons with 1 Pro Bowl, 1 first-team All-Pro and 1 second-team All-Pro. His injury history held 9 episodes (knee 4, wrist 2, ankle 1), 2 of them reaching OUT, 4 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was a chest injury in 2025 week 3.
The full read
In short
Talanoa Hufanga is a starter at strong safety for DEN — 100% of the snaps in his best week of 5. He has an ankle injury. His team named him inactive in week 6. This week he did not practise every day the report covers. His team has listed him Out. We called him PLAY in week 6 and he did not play.
What the reports say
our calls for this week are for members
The reports, quoted
What was reported
Source
1
“Missing from practice: Safety Talanoa Hufanga (ankle), outside linebacker Jonah Elliss (lower body) and running back Tyler Badie (thumb). They were all listed as DNPs for Wednesday.”
Denver Post · 2026-10-21
2
“Denver's safety Talanoa Hufanga did not practice with an ankle injury.”
Arizona Cardinals · 2026-10-22
3
“they avoided putting him on injured reserve. If he can play Sunday against the Cardinals, that would mark 21 days since his injury against the Niners”
Denver Post · 2026-10-21
His team's word: Out
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 own word, restated.
Practice this week
Fri
Thu
Wed
DNPdated Fri Oct 23
DNPdated Fri Oct 23
DNPdated Fri Oct 23
Shape of the week: steady. 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.
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
Snap share92.6% range 66–100
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
100%wk 1
100%wk 2
97%wk 3
100%wk 4
66%wk 5
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
1
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 6
ankle
2
Out
2025 · wk 3
chest
1
—
2024 · wk 14
wrist
5
Questionable
2024 · wk 6
wrist
1
Out
2024 · wk 4
ankle
2
Questionable
2024 · wk 1
knee
3
Doubtful
2023 · wk 12
knee
1
—
2023 · wk 1
knee
1
—
2022 · wk 7
concussion
1
Questionable
2021 · wk 16
knee
5
Out
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 10 episodes · 22 weeks on a report · same site more than once: knee ×4
2021
knee · 5w
2022
concussion · 1w
2023
knee · 1wknee · 1w
2024
wrist · 5wwrist · 1wankle · 2wknee · 3w
2025
chest · 1w
2026
ankle · 2w
Weeks 1–18
ruled out
doubtful
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 66% ✗ missbefore his team said anything; 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 this week
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
Michael Deiter
C
UNK
team's word
—
Sam Ehlinger
QB
UNK
team's word
—
Tyler Badie
RB
DNP
team's word
Out
Jordan Jackson
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Matt Henningsen
DE
UNK
team's word
—
Nick Gargiulo
G
UNK
team's word
—
Levelle Bailey
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Frank Crum
OT
UNK
team's word
—
Jonah Elliss
LB
DNP
team's word
Out
Pat Bryant
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Caleb Lohner
TE
UNK
team's word
—
Dallen Bentley
TE
UNK
team's word
—
Jonah Coleman
RB
FULL
team's word
Questionable
Kage Casey
OT
UNK
team's word
—
Tyler Onyedim
DT
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
age 26.6 · 5 seasons' experience · drafted round 5
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.