WR · Buffalo Bills · week 6 vs Las Vegas Raiders · Sun Oct 18 · 4:25 PM ET
Josh Palmer
TYPE Deep threat
ROLE a starter
CLASS 2021 · R3 P77
EXP 5 seasons
AGE 25-28
DEPTH WR4
As of week 6, Josh Palmer was a WR for BUF, age 26.9, 5 seasons of experience, drafted in round 3. In 2026 through week 5 he had played 4 games on 40% of snaps; his line was 26.7 receiving yards a game, 3 targets a game and a 10.5% target share (Deep threat by the published rule). Before 2026 he played 71 games (postseason included) over 5 seasons. His injury history held 11 episodes (knee 4, ankle 3, concussion 2), 7 of them reaching OUT, 6 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was an ankle injury in 2025 week 19.
The full read
How our call moved this week
100500
his club's word: Questionable94%94%94%94%94%65%65%65%65%65%65%65%
Fri 7:01 AM ETSun 12:29 PM ET
our call, P(plays)
club report (public)
94% EXPECTED → 65% COIN FLIP
Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.
In short
Josh Palmer is a starter at wide receiver for BUF — 59% of the snaps in his best week of 5. He has a shoulder injury. His team named him inactive in week 5. This week he practised limited every day the report covers. His team has listed him Questionable.
The reader concurs · grade B
Palmer carries an official Questionable game-status designation for this Sunday's game at Las Vegas (P1), which is the live designation axis and is a step up from the previous week when he was ruled out (P5) — that ruling is history, not status. On the practice axis he was limited Wednesday (P4) and was photographed at the club's Thursday 15 Oct practice (P2), i.e. trending up rather than down. A beat writer covering the team expected him to be listed questionable again rather than downgraded (P3), and nothing written contradicts a PLAY call, though no Friday participation level or inactive list is available yet. It would need to know: Friday 16 Oct practice participation level for Palmer in the club's own report (LTD vs FULL); Joe Brady or Bills comment on Palmer's shoulder being cleared for contact/game action; Sunday 18 Oct inactive list for Buffalo at Las Vegas; Whether DJ Moore is out, which would raise Palmer's snap need
12versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
COIN FLIP since Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM ET · 45 h before kickoff · 6 h before the club. Biggest move: 94% → 65%, Fri Oct 16 · 5:21 PM ET to Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM 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
Thu
LPdated Fri Oct 16
LPdated Fri Oct 16
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.
Head start
His club's word
Kickoff
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
Rec yds / game29 range 3.0–43
wk 1–6 · 4 games
Targets / game2.8 range 2.0–4.0
wk 1–6 · 4 games
Target share9.5% range 7–13
wk 1–6 · 4 games
Snap share37.0% range 25–59
wk 1–6 · 5 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
31%wk 1
38%wk 2
32%wk 3
59%wk 4
25%wk 6
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
2
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 5
shoulder
2
Out
2025 · wk 19
ankle
1
Out
2025 · wk 13
ankle
2
Questionable
2025 · wk 8
knee
6
Out
2024 · wk 18
foot
2
Out
2024 · wk 3
arm
2
Questionable
2024 · wk 1
knee
2
Questionable
2023 · wk 17
concussion
2
Out
2023 · wk 14
knee
2
Out
2023 · wk 8
knee
2
Out
2022 · wk 7
concussion
2
Out
2022 · wk 5
ankle
2
Questionable
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 12 episodes · 27 weeks on a report · same site more than once: knee ×4
2022
concussion · 2wankle · 2w
2023
concussion · 2wknee · 2wknee · 2w
2024
foot · 2warm · 2wknee · 2w
2025
ankle · 2wknee · 6w
2026
shoulder · 2w
Weeks 1–18
ruled out
questionable
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 5not ourshis club's word, restated; did not play
Wk 6PLAY 94% ✓ rightbefore his team said anything; 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
DJ Moore
WR
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Bradley Chubb
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Ed Oliver
DE
LTD
team's word
Questionable
C.J. Gardner-Johnson
S
FULL
ours
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
Ty Johnson
RB
FULL
ours
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
Michael Danna
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Spencer Brown
T
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Dee Alford
CB
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Terrel Bernard
LB
LTD
ours
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
Christian Benford
CB
FULL
ours
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
Tyrell Shavers
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Te'Cory Couch
DB
UNK
ours
PLAY
56%
COIN FLIP
Keon Coleman
WR
FULL
ours
PLAY
91%
EXPECTED
Landon Jackson
DE
FULL
ours
PLAY
88%
EXPECTED
Jordan Hancock
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Dorian Strong
CB
UNK
team's word
—
T.J. Sanders
DE
FULL
team's word
Questionable
TJ Parker
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
82%
LIKELY
Zane Durant
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Ar'maj Reed-Adams
G
FULL
team's word
—
Jude Bowry
OT
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 26.9 · 5 seasons' experience · drafted round 3
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.
a starter at wide receiver — 59% of the snaps in his best week of 5
Listed on the depth chart
number 4 at wide receiver
Last week
He did not dress last week
Snaps played
37% a week on average over 5 weeks, 59% at his highest
Build
6 ft 1 in · 210 lb
College
Tennessee
Drafted
2021, round 3 pick 77, by LAC
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
Fri Oct 16 · 7:01 AM ET
57 h
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 12:01 PM ET
52 h
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 3:49 PM ET
49 h
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 5:02 PM ET
47 h
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 5:21 PM ET
47 h
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM ET
45 h
PLAY
65%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET
33 h
PLAY
65%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 12:02 PM ET
28 h
PLAY
65%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET
23 h
PLAY
65%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET
9 h
PLAY
65%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 12:02 PM ET
4 h
PLAY
65%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 12:29 PM ET
4 h
PLAY
65%
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
12 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.
His record this season
Wk
Practice
Chance he plays
Call
Source
Played
5
DNP
—
his team's word
his team's own word, restated
no
6
LTD
94%
PLAY
before his team said anything
yes
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.
Named inactive in week 5
The team's own list (shoulder). We held it before kickoff, so it could have informed a call. Matched to him by his player id.