Quentin Johnston

How our call moved this week

• our call, P(plays)

82% LIKELY → 98% EXPECTED

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

In short

Quentin Johnston is a starter at wide receiver for LAC — 87% of the snaps in his best week of 5. He has a chest injury. His team named him inactive in week 5. This week he practised limited, then practised in full. His team has not listed him on the final report. We say he plays — 98%, in a band that plays 96% of the time. We have said PLAY since 81 hours before kickoff. We called him PLAY in week 5 and he did not play.

The reader concurs · grade C

Johnston was a limited participant with a chest issue on both Wednesday and Thursday, listed in the routine limited group alongside McConkey, Thompson, Tomlinson and a dozen others rather than singled out as a doubt (P1, P2, P3). The genuinely absent players were separately named as DNP both days — Alt, Awosika, Jackson, James, Ingold, Harris — and Johnston was not among them (P1, P3), and no passage reports any deterioration or game designation. Nothing written contradicts the PLAY call; the gap is simply that no Friday report, designation, or inactive list is in the dossier, hence grade C rather than B. It would need to know: Chargers Friday (Oct 16) practice participation for Quentin Johnston — full, limited, or DNP; The final Friday game-status designation (Out/Doubtful/Questionable/none) for Johnston for the Oct 18 game at Kansas City; Any Harbaugh or club comment on the nature/severity of Johnston's chest injury (contusion, ribs, padding/breathing); Sunday inactives list or beat-writer expectation for Johnston at Arrowhead; Whether fellow WRs Tre' Harris (hamstring) and KeAndre Lambert-Smith (hamstring) are out, which would raise Johnston's snap need

What the read cites

How the call moved

EXPECTED since Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET · 33 h before kickoff. Biggest move: 83% → 98%, Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM ET to Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET, after: practiced more (Limited Participation in Practice → Full Participation in Practice).

This week's call

98% · 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: 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

• Our call Thu Oct 15 · 7:01 AM ET
• Kickoff Sun Oct 18 · 4:25 PM ET

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

• Rec yds / game33 range 7.0–57

  wk 1–6 · 5 games

• Targets / game4.4 range 2.0–6.0

  wk 1–6 · 5 games

• Target share14.4% range 6–22

  wk 1–6 · 5 games

• Snap share80.6% range 75–87

  wk 1–6 · 5 games

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

1. 78%wk 1
2. 81%wk 2
3. 87%wk 3
4. 75%wk 4
5. 82%wk 6

Our past calls vs what happened

Season on him: 1 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.