Pete Werner

In short

Pete Werner is a starter at right inside linebacker for NO — 93% of the snaps in his best week of 3. He has a shoulder injury. He left last week's game. Of men in that position who did play the following week, 45% took under 70% of their usual snaps. This week he did not practise, then did not practise, then did not practise. His team has not listed him on the final report. We say he sits — 50%, in a band that plays 53% of the time. We have said SIT since 78 hours before kickoff.

20Pete Werner

LB · NO · RILB

93%of the snaps, best week

His role

a starter at right inside linebacker — 93% of the snaps in his best week of 3

Listed on the depth chart

first at right inside linebacker

Last week

He left last week's game — far below his usual share

Snaps played

57% a week on average over 3 weeks, 93% at his highest, 16% on special teams

Build

6 ft 3 in · 242 lb

College

Ohio State

Drafted

2021, round 2 pick 60, by NO

Experience

6 seasons

not confident3h before kickoffDNP

a genuine coin flip — this band plays 53% of the time (52–55%), measured out of fold. We do not stand behind a call in this band, and say so rather than dress it up.

champion

How our call moved, earliest first

14 calls this week, and it never changed. 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.

The team's own practice report, day by day

Shape of the week: steady. Only rows the publisher dated are here; a row we could not date is excluded until the nightly sweep stamps it. No measured play rate exists for most of these patterns, so the shape is a fact and not a forecast.

The reader concurs · grade C

The only passage is the club's own injury report from the first session of this precise practice week, explicitly tied to the named game — 'ahead of their Week 4 primetime matchup at home against the Atlanta Falcons on Monday, October 5th' — and it lists Werner as a non-participant, confirming a CURRENT shoulder issue rather than a historical one (P1). Nothing written contradicts the SIT call: no passage reports an upgrade to limited, a coach's optimism, or a favourable final designation (P1). The grade stays C only because the prose is thin — one day-one report and no final status — not because anything in it points the other way. It would need to know: Saints' FINAL injury report for the Mon 05 Oct vs Atlanta game — was Werner Out, Doubtful or Questionable?; The inactives list released ~90 minutes before Monday kickoff; A prose practice report for Sun 04 Oct — did Werner ever upgrade from DNP to limited at the final session?; A Kellen Moore or defensive-coordinator quote on the nature/timeline of the shoulder (stinger vs AC sprain vs multi-week); Whether New Orleans elevated a linebacker from the practice squad or named a replacement starter at Werner's spot for Monday

We went and found out more

Rank 1 (starter), 12 documents deep, because: llm_unsure. Fetched 12 of 12.

His record this season

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

The rest of his team's report this week

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

What this page does not show

his depth-chart position, snap history and previous injuries (research substrate, not the product database).