Chauncey Golston

How our call moved this week

• our call, P(plays)

76% LIKELY → 76% LIKELY

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

In short

Chauncey Golston is a starter at right defensive end for NYG — 63% of the snaps in his best week of 4. He has a not stated injury. His snaps dropped last week. Of players in that position who did play the following week, 43% took under 70% of their usual snaps. This week he did not practise every day the report covers. His team has not listed him on the final report. We called him PLAY in week 5 and he did not play.

The reader dissents · grade C · superseded

The only prose available remains P1, which establishes the neck problem is a genuine, current in-game injury — Golston is named as one of three Giants to 'leave game' in the 4 Oct win over Arizona (P1) — so the club's Wed and Thu DNPs are injury absences rather than veteran maintenance, with no written sign of progression. P1 offers no severity, prognosis or ruling for 11 Oct, and no passage records a Friday practice line or designation, so a back-to-back DNP on a fresh injury leaves the PLAY call unsupported by anything written. Our measured cell (28% of this practice line played) points the same way as the prose, and nothing in P1 counterweights it. It would need to know: Giants' Friday (09 Oct) practice report line for Chauncey Golston — DNP, LP or FP; Friday (09 Oct) final game-status designation for Golston for Sun 11 Oct (Out / Doubtful / Questionable / none); Any Brian Daboll press-conference remark this week on the severity or expected timeline of Golston's neck injury; Whether Golston was placed on IR, or whether a DE signing / practice-squad elevation followed the Arizona game — Our call has since changed from PLAY to SIT. This reading was written against the earlier one and is kept as it was; it is not an argument about the call shown above.

What the read cites

How the call moved

LIKELY since Thu Oct 8 · 7:01 AM ET · 78 h before kickoff · 43 h before the club. Biggest move: 76% → 76%, Thu Oct 8 · 5:01 PM ET to Fri Oct 9 · 7:01 AM 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).

Practice this week

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

• Tackles / game3.0 range 2.0–4.0

  wk 1–4 · 4 games

• Sacks / game0.0 range 0.0–0.0

  wk 1–4 · 4 games

• Passes defended / game0.0 range 0.0–0.0

  wk 1–4 · 4 games

• Snap share51.7% range 38–63

  wk 1–4 · 4 games

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

1. 48%wk 1
2. 63%wk 2
3. 58%wk 3
4. 38%wk 4

Our past calls vs what happened

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

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