LB · Arizona Cardinals · week 6 vs Los Angeles Rams · Sun Oct 18 · 4:05 PM ET
Zaven Collins
ROLE in the rotation
CLASS 2021 · R1 P16
EXP 5 seasons
AGE 25-28
DEPTH SLB1
As of week 6, Zaven Collins was an LB for ARI, age 27.3, 5 seasons of experience, drafted in round 1. In 2026 through week 5 he was listed at depth rank 1 on his club's depth chart; he had played 5 games on 45% of snaps; his line was 3.2 tackles a game, 0.2 sacks a game and 0.4 passes defended a game. Before 2026 he played 85 games (postseason included) over 5 seasons. His injury history held 7 episodes (shoulder 2, ankle 1, calf 1), 1 of them reaching OUT, 1 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was a neck injury in 2024 week 16.
The full read
How our call moved this week
100500
his club's word: Questionable61%61%61%61%60%60%
Sat 2:02 AM ETSun 12:02 PM ET
our call, P(plays)
club report (public)
61% COIN FLIP → 60% COIN FLIP
Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.
In short
Zaven Collins is in the rotation at strong-side linebacker for ARI — 51% of the snaps in his best week of 6. He has a hip injury. This week he did not practise. His team has listed him Questionable.
6versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
COIN FLIP since Sat Oct 17 · 2:16 AM ET · 38 h before kickoff · after the club said it (0 h). Biggest move: 61% → 60%, 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
DNPdated 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
Tackles / game3.0 range 2.0–5.0
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Sacks / game0.2 range 0.0–1.0
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Passes defended / game0.3 range 0.0–2.0
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Snap share45.8% range 40–51
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
49%wk 1
40%wk 2
43%wk 3
51%wk 4
44%wk 5
48%wk 6
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
1
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
hip
1
Questionable
2024 · wk 16
neck
1
—
2023 · wk 17
ankle
1
—
2023 · wk 7
illness
1
—
2023 · wk 4
eye
1
—
2022 · wk 18
calf
1
Out
2022 · wk 4
shoulder
3
Questionable
2021 · wk 7
shoulder
2
—
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: shoulder ×2
2021
shoulder · 2w
2022
calf · 1wshoulder · 3w
2023
ankle · 1willness · 1weye · 1w
2024
neck · 1w
2026
hip · 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 61% ✓ 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
Blake Gillikin
P
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Devin Duvernay
WR
LTD
ours
PLAY
98%
EXPECTED
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
LB1 · 45% snaps
Season
2026 · 5 games through wk 5
Per game
3.2 tackles · 0.2 sacks · 0.4 passes defended
Career
5 seasons · 85 games before 2026
Injuries
7 episodes · last: neck, 2024 wk 16
Bio
age 27.3 · 5 seasons' experience · drafted round 1
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 strong-side linebacker — 51% of the snaps in his best week of 6
Listed on the depth chart
first at strong-side linebacker
Snaps played
46% a week on average over 6 weeks, 51% at his highest, 33% on special teams
Build
6 ft 4 in · 270 lb
College
Tulsa
Drafted
2021, round 1 pick 16, by ARI
Age
25-28 at the season's start
Experience
5 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
61%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET
33 h
PLAY
61%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 12:02 PM ET
28 h
PLAY
61%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET
23 h
PLAY
61%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET
9 h
PLAY
60%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 12:02 PM ET
4 h
PLAY
60%
COIN FLIP
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.
We went and found out more
Rank 1 (listed first on his depth chart), 12 documents deep, because: llm_unsure. Fetched 12 of 12.
His record this season
Wk
Practice
Chance he plays
Call
Source
Played
6
DNP
61%
PLAY
after his team's announcement
yes
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.
What this page does not show
the reader's opinion — it has not read him this week.