Isaiah Likely

How our call moved this week

• our call, P(plays)

99% EXPECTED → 99% EXPECTED

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

In short

Isaiah Likely is a starter at tight end for NYG — 91% of the snaps in his best week of 6. He has a foot injury. This week he practised in full every day the report covers. His team has not listed him on the final report. We say he plays — 99%, in a band that plays 96% of the time. We have said PLAY since 78 hours before kickoff.

The reader concurs · grade B

Likely is on the club's own injury report with a foot issue but as a FULL participant, listed apart from teammates who were out or limited, which reads as a maintenance listing rather than a doubt (P4, P5). He is the featured pass-catcher in this offense — 11 catches, 94 yards and two TDs last week and 33 receptions in five games as a Giant (P1, P2) — and no passage anywhere hints he is in question for the Saints game. Grade is B rather than A because the only practice evidence is Wednesday 14 Oct (P4, P5); no Friday report or game-status designation appears in the dossier prose. It would need to know: Friday 16 Oct Giants practice report and the official Week 6 game-status designation (Q/O/none) for Likely; Any Giants coaching-staff comment on Likely's foot during the 12-17 Oct week; Week 6 inactives list for the Sunday 18 Oct Giants-Saints game; Status of TE Theo Johnson (neck), which would signal how much the Giants need Likely on the field

What the read cites

How the call moved

EXPECTED since Thu Oct 15 · 7:01 AM ET · 78 h before kickoff.

This week's call

99% · EXPECTED

we expect him to play — this band plays 96% of the time (96–97%), measured out of fold. We stand behind this one.

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.

Head start

• Our call Thu Oct 15 · 7:01 AM ET
• Kickoff Sun Oct 18 · 1:00 PM ET

Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range

• Rec yds / game64 range 13–99

  wk 1–6 · 6 games · above most of his peers

• Targets / game9.8 range 5.0–13

  wk 1–6 · 6 games · above most of his peers

• Target share28.6% range 24–41

  wk 1–6 · 6 games · above most of his peers

• Snap share73.2% range 49–91

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

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

1. 49%wk 1
2. 69%wk 2
3. 84%wk 3
4. 66%wk 4
5. 80%wk 5
6. 91%wk 6

Our past calls vs what happened

Season on him: 2 of 2 graded calls 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.