S · New York Jets · week 6 vs New England Patriots · Sun Oct 18 · 1:00 PM ET
Dane Belton
ROLE a starter
CLASS 2022 · R4 P114
EXP 4 seasons
AGE 25-28
DEPTH SS1
As of week 6, Dane Belton was an SAF for NYJ, age 25.7, 4 seasons of experience, drafted in round 4. In 2026 through week 5 he was listed at depth rank 1 on his club's depth chart; he had played 5 games on 100% of snaps. Before 2026 he played 68 games (postseason included) over 4 seasons. His injury history held 10 episodes (back 2, collarbone 2, calf 1), 2 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was a neck injury in 2025 week 10.
The full read
How our call moved this week
100500
his club's word: Questionable97%97%97%98%98%98%98%98%75%86%86%86%86%
Thu 7:01 AM ETSun 7:01 AM ET
our call, P(plays)
club report (public)
97% EXPECTED → 86% EXPECTED
Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.
In short
Dane Belton is a starter at strong safety for NYJ — 100% of the snaps in his best week of 6. He has a knee injury. This week he practised limited, then practised in full. His team has listed him Questionable.
The reader concurs · grade B
The only prose available describes Belton as merely 'listed as limited' mid-week while the same report flags the genuinely doubtful teammates separately — Ossai 'week-to-week' and Sadiq 'in concussion protocol' (P1) — and Belton is pointedly not placed in that category. P1 also identifies him as the man who 'leads the team with 37 tackles' (P1), i.e. an entrenched starter the club is not treating as in jeopardy, and the tone of the coach's quote is about players 'getting ready to come back' (P1) rather than losses. Nothing written contradicts the PLAY call; the passage predates the Friday full practice in our own record, so the written evidence is if anything behind the dossier, not against it. It would need to know: Saturday 17 Oct practice/participation note or any late addition to the report for Belton; Aaron Glenn's Friday/Saturday remark specifically naming Belton's knee or his expected availability for Sun 18 Oct; Beat-writer inactives projection for the Jets for Sun 18 Oct; Whether a safety was signed or elevated from the practice squad for this game, which would signal doubt
What the read cites
What was reported
Source
1
“S Dane Belton, who leads the team with 37 tackles, was listed as limited”
New York Jets · 2026-10-14
2
“edge Joseph Ossai (ankle) is week-to-week”
New York Jets · 2026-10-14
3
“Rookie TE Kenyon Sadiq, who has 14 catches for 146 yards with 1 receiving TD and 1 rushing TD, is in concussion protocol.”
New York Jets · 2026-10-14
4
“Good to see some of our guys that were injured actually getting ready to come back”
New York Jets · 2026-10-14
13versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
EXPECTED since Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET · 30 h before kickoff · after the club said it (-5 h). Biggest move: 98% → 75%, 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
FPdated Fri Oct 16
LPdated Fri Oct 16
Shape of the week: improving. 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
Snap share100.0% range 100–100
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
100%wk 1
100%wk 2
100%wk 3
100%wk 4
100%wk 5
100%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
knee
1
Questionable
2025 · wk 7
neck
2
—
2025 · wk 5
shoulder
2
—
2024 · wk 15
knee
3
—
2024 · wk 14
hip
1
—
2024 · wk 8
calf
1
—
2024 · wk 7
illness
1
Questionable
2024 · wk 1
back
1
—
2023 · wk 18
Not injury related
1
—
2023 · wk 10
back
1
—
2022 · wk 11
collarbone
3
Questionable
2022 · wk 1
collarbone
3
Questionable
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 12 episodes · 20 weeks on a report · same site more than once: knee ×2
2022
collarbone · 3wcollarbone · 3w
2023
Not injury related · 1wback · 1w
2024
knee · 3whip · 1wcalf · 1willness · 1wback · 1w
2025
neck · 2wshoulder · 2w
2026
knee · 1w
Weeks 1–18
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 97% ✓ 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
David Onyemata
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Jack Heflin
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Tre Brown
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Joseph Ossai
DE
DNP
team's word
Out
Nahshon Wright
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Dylan Parham
G
DNP
team's word
Out
Kingsley Jonathan
DE
UNK
team's word
—
Marcelino McCrary-Ball
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Breece Hall
RB
DNP
team's word
Out
Braiden McGregor
DE
UNK
team's word
—
Adonai Mitchell
WR
DNP
team's word
Out
Francisco Mauigoa
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Tyler Baron
DE
UNK
team's word
—
Arian Smith
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Kenyon Sadiq
TE
FULL
team's word
Questionable
Anez Cooper
G
UNK
team's word
—
VJ Payne
SAF
UNK
team's word
—
Chip Trayanum
RB
UNK
team's word
—
Omar Cooper Jr.
WR
FULL
team's word
Questionable
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
SAF1 · 100% snaps
Season
2026 · 5 games through wk 5
Career
4 seasons · 68 games before 2026
Injuries
10 episodes · last: neck, 2025 wk 10
Bio
age 25.7 · 4 seasons' experience · drafted round 4
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 strong safety — 100% of the snaps in his best week of 6
Listed on the depth chart
first at strong safety
Snaps played
100% a week on average over 6 weeks, 100% at his highest, 23% on special teams
Build
6 ft 1 in · 205 lb
College
Iowa
Drafted
2022, round 4 pick 114, by NYG
Age
25-28 at the season's start
Experience
4 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
Thu Oct 15 · 7:01 AM ET
78 h
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Thu Oct 15 · 12:01 PM ET
73 h
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Thu Oct 15 · 5:01 PM ET
68 h
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 7:01 AM ET
54 h
PLAY
98%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 12:01 PM ET
49 h
PLAY
98%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 3:49 PM ET
45 h
PLAY
98%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 5:02 PM ET
44 h
PLAY
98%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 5:21 PM ET
44 h
PLAY
98%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM ET
41 h
PLAY
75%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET
30 h
PLAY
86%
EXPECTED
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 12:02 PM ET
25 h
PLAY
86%
EXPECTED
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET
20 h
PLAY
86%
EXPECTED
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET
6 h
PLAY
86%
EXPECTED
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 11:31 AM ET
2 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's published inactive list, on the day
Sun Oct 18 · 12:02 PM ET
1 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's published inactive list, on the day
13 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
LTD
97%
PLAY
before his team said anything
yes
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.