Keeanu Benton

How our call moved this week

• our call, P(plays)
• club report (public)

67% LIKELY → 74% LIKELY

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

In short

Keeanu Benton is a starter at nose tackle for PIT — 68% of the snaps in his best week of 6. He has an ankle injury. His team has listed him Questionable.

The reader concurs · grade C

The only club-sourced item for this week is still the Wednesday 14 Oct report, where Benton "didn't participate in practice Wednesday with an ankle injury, the team announced" (P1), restated in the Wednesday grid under DNP (P3) — that is the practice axis on day one, not a game status, and no Out/Doubtful/Questionable tag appears in any passage. Two club-adjacent facts cut toward playing: he finished the previous game ("He finished Sunday's win over the Indianapolis Colts, and there's no indication how severe or minor the injury is" (P3)), and he is a paid, high-usage starter coming off his best game of the year (P2). Nothing in the prose contradicts the dossier's FULL practice line or the PLAY call; the dissent-worthy fact — a Friday designation — simply is not present, so I concur while grading the evidence thin. It would need to know: Steelers' Thursday 15 Oct injury report — Benton's participation level (DNP / limited / full); Steelers' Friday 16 Oct injury report — Benton's participation level, to confirm or refute the dossier's FULL line; Official Friday 16 Oct game-status designation for Benton ahead of the Buccaneers game (Out / Doubtful / Questionable / none); Mike Tomlin press-conference remarks on the severity of Benton's ankle (high ankle sprain vs. minor tweak); Whether Benton was listed on the Saturday 17 Oct or gameday inactive list for the 18 Oct Buccaneers game

What the read cites

How the call moved

LIKELY since Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET · 30 h before kickoff · after the club said it (-5 h). Biggest move: 92% → 62%, 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.

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

• His club's word Sat Oct 17 · 2:02 AM ET
• Kickoff Sun Oct 18 · 1:00 PM ET

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

• Tackles / game2.5 range 0.0–3.0

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

• Sacks / game0.0 range 0.0–0.0

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

• Passes defended / game0.3 range 0.0–1.0

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

• Snap share61.2% range 56–68

  wk 1–6 · 6 games

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

1. 58%wk 1
2. 65%wk 2
3. 56%wk 3
4. 61%wk 4
5. 68%wk 5
6. 59%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.