Davis Allen

How our call moved this week

• our call, P(plays)

62% COIN FLIP → 85% LIKELY

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

In short

Davis Allen is in the rotation at tight end for LA — 52% of the snaps in his best week of 6. He has a foot injury. This week he did not practise, then practised limited. His team has not listed him on the final report. We say he plays — 85%, in a band that plays 76% of the time. We have said PLAY since 81 hours before kickoff.

The reader concurs · grade C

The only club documents in evidence show Allen missing practice outright on Wednesday ('TE Davis Allen (Foot) - DNP', P2) and again Thursday, when he was 'the only player who didn't practice for the Rams' (P3, corroborated by P1), which is harsher than the 94% starting cell but is consistent with the dossier's own Thu-DNP entry. Nothing written here contradicts the Friday limited participation the dossier records, and no passage carries a game designation or a 'ruled out' — Wednesday's report was itself only 'estimated' because the Rams had no true session two days after the Bills loss (P3), which softens the early-week misses. P1 notes McVay was not due to speak again 'until Friday', so the decisive coach commentary and the final report simply postdate every passage we have; absent any written negative, the PLAY call stands, though thinly supported. It would need to know: Friday Oct 16 final injury report game designation for Davis Allen (Out/Doubtful/Questionable/none) for Sun Oct 18 vs. opponent; Confirmation on the club's own page that Allen was Limited (not DNP) on Fri Oct 16, i.e. the first practice participation of the week; McVay's Friday press conference remarks on the severity/timeline of Allen's foot injury; Whether TE Colby Parkinson (shoulder) cleared his limited designation, and the rest of the Rams' TE depth, which governs whether a third-string TE is needed; Any Saturday elevation/inactive-list news for the Rams' tight end group

What the read cites

How the call moved

LIKELY since Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET · 33 h before kickoff. Biggest move: 61% → 85%, Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM ET to Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET, after: practiced more (Did Not Participate In Practice → Limited Participation in Practice).

This week's call

85% · LIKELY

likely to play — this band plays 76% of the time (75–78%), measured out of fold. We do not stand behind a call in this band, and say so rather than dress it up.

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 · 4:05 PM ET

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

• Rec yds / game11 range 0.0–24

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

• Targets / game1.5 range 0.0–3.0

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

• Target share3.6% range 0–6

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

• Snap share41.8% range 31–52

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

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

1. 34%wk 1
2. 52%wk 2
3. 36%wk 3
4. 48%wk 4
5. 50%wk 5
6. 31%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.