Josh Downs

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

Josh Downs is a starter at wide receiver for IND — 89% of the snaps in his best week of 6. He has a not injury related - resting player injury. 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

Downs' only adverse listing this week was Wednesday, explicitly a partial veteran rest day with a hamstring note (P6: "wide receiver Josh Downs (rest, hamstring) was limited due to a partial rest day to help with any ailing injuries"), and the club's own Thursday report returns him to full (P5: "Wider receiver Josh Downs (rest, hamstring) returned to full participation"; P4: "elevated to a full participant Thursday"). A beat outlet reading the same club report states the rest-day group "All look inline to play Sunday" (P3), and the club lists only Carlies and Dulin as non-practicing, not Downs (P5). Separately he is described as the offense's primary third-down weapon amid a depleted corps (P1, P2), which cuts against any voluntary sit; the only gap is that no Friday/Saturday report or final designation is in the dossier, so the call is supported but not settled. It would need to know: Friday 16 Oct Colts practice report entry for Josh Downs (full/limited/DNP); Final Saturday 17 Oct injury report designation for Downs (Questionable/none) ahead of the Oct 18 Titans game; Any Shane Steichen remark this week on Downs' hamstring or a Sunday snap-count limit; Confirmation of Alec Pierce's and Ashton Dulin's Week 6 status, which would raise Downs' required workload; Week 6 inactives list for IND vs TEN

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.

No dated practice report for him this week

The team has not published one we can date, or the window has not reached it. Not the same as his having practiced.

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 / game48 range 16–77

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

• Targets / game7.0 range 4.0–11

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

• Target share20.6% range 14–31

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

• Snap share81.3% range 68–89

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

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

1. 89%wk 1
2. 83%wk 2
3. 68%wk 3
4. 77%wk 4
5. 85%wk 5
6. 86%wk 6

Our past calls vs what happened

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

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