CB · #8 · Miami Dolphins · week 8 vs New England Patriots · Sun Nov 1 · 4:25 PM ET
Julius Brents
ROLE a starter
CLASS 2023 · R2 P44
EXP 3 seasons
AGE 25-28
DEPTH RCB1
As of week 8, Julius Brents was a CB for MIA, age 26.6, 3 seasons of experience, drafted in round 2. In 2026 through week 7 he was listed at depth rank 1 on his club's depth chart; he had played 6 games on 68% of snaps; his line was 3.7 tackles a game, 0 sacks a game and 0.2 passes defended a game. Before 2026 he played 18 games (postseason included) over 3 seasons. His injury history held 4 episodes (knee 2, achilles 1, quad 1), 1 of them reaching OUT, 1 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was an achilles injury in 2026 week 7.
The full read
In short
How our call moved in week 8
100500
his club's word: Questionable68%68%35%35%35%35%65%65%65%65%85%85%85%85%85%85%
Wed 1:50 PM ETSun 11:02 AM ET
our call, P(plays)
club report (public)
68% LIKELY → 85% LIKELY
Every call we wrote for him in week 8, earliest first, as written.
In short
Julius Brents is a starter at right cornerback for MIA — 90% of the snaps in his best week of 7. He has a neck injury. In week 8 he did not practise, then practised limited, then practised in full. His team has listed him Questionable.
16versions in week 8
10average, every player
54most for one player
How the call moved
LIKELY since Sat Oct 31 · 2:10 AM ET · 39 h before kickoff · after the club said it (0 h). Biggest move: 68% → 35%, Wed Oct 28 · 5:02 PM ET to Thu Oct 29 · 2:10 AM ET, with no club report in between.
Our call
Injury report
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 in week 8
Fri
Thu
Wed
FPdated Sun Nov 1
LPdated Sun Nov 1
DNPdated Sun Nov 1
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
The evidence behind his current call
We have not read the news for this player this week.
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
Tackles / game3.6 range 1.0–6.0
wk 1–8 · 7 games
Sacks / game0.0 range 0.0–0.0
wk 1–8 · 7 games
Passes defended / game0.1 range 0.0–1.0
wk 1–8 · 7 games
Snap share70.3% range 38–90
wk 1–8 · 7 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
38%wk 1
62%wk 2
69%wk 3
88%wk 4
62%wk 5
90%wk 7
83%wk 8
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
5
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 8
neck
1
Questionable
2026 · wk 5
achilles
2
—
2026 · wk 3
knee
2
Questionable
2024 · wk 16
knee
3
Questionable
2023 · wk 8
quad
7
Out
2023 · wk 1
Not injury related
1
—
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 5 episodes · plus 1 not injury related · 16 weeks on a report · same site more than once: knee ×2
2023
quad · 7wNot injury related · 1w
2024
knee · 3w
2026
neck · 1wachilles · 2wknee · 2w
Weeks 1–18
ruled out
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.
The rest of his team's report in week 8
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
Ronnie Harrison
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Willie Gay Jr.
LB
UNK
ours
PLAY
73%
LIKELY
Greg Dulcich
TE
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Darrell Baker Jr.
CB
UNK
team's word
Out
Tucker Addington
LS
LTD
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Malik Willis
QB
FULL
ours
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
Reese Taylor
CB
FULL
team's word
Questionable
Rob Beal Jr.
DE
FULL
team's word
—
Jared Wayne
WR
FULL
team's word
Out
Jaylin Simpson
CB
UNK
team's word
Out
Marcellas Dial Jr.
DB
UNK
team's word
Out
Jamree Kromah
DE
UNK
team's word
Out
Jaylen Wright
RB
FULL
ours
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
Malik Washington
WR
FULL
ours
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
Dante Trader Jr.
S
FULL
ours
PLAY
98%
EXPECTED
Justin Joly
TE
UNK
team's word
Out
Kadyn Proctor
T
DNP
team's word
Out
Will Kacmarek
TE
FULL
ours
PLAY
89%
EXPECTED
Trey Moore
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Michael Taaffe
S
FULL
ours
PLAY
92%
EXPECTED
The model reads the room: who else is out shifts what his own designation is worth.
The evidence behind his earlier calls
The evidence behind the call made Wed Oct 28 · 1:50 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Wed Oct 28 · 5:02 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 29 · 2:10 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 29 · 7:02 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 29 · 12:05 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 29 · 5:05 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Fri Oct 30 · 2:10 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Fri Oct 30 · 7:05 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Fri Oct 30 · 12:05 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Fri Oct 30 · 5:02 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 31 · 2:10 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 31 · 7:05 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 31 · 12:02 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 31 · 5:06 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sun Nov 1 · 6:06 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sun Nov 1 · 11:02 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sun Nov 1 · 3:10 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sun Nov 1 · 4:02 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
Role
Call history
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 8
Role
CB1 · 68% snaps
Season
2026 · 6 games through wk 7
Per game
3.7 tackles · 0 sacks · 0.2 passes defended
Career
3 seasons · 18 games before 2026
Injuries
4 episodes · last: achilles, 2026 wk 7
Bio
age 26.6 · 3 seasons' experience · drafted round 2
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 right cornerback — 90% of the snaps in his best week of 7
Listed on the depth chart
first at right cornerback
Snaps played
70% a week on average over 7 weeks, 90% at his highest, 1% on special teams
Build
6 ft 3 in · 203 lb
College
Kansas State
Drafted
2023, round 2 pick 44, by IND
Age
25-28 at the season's start
Experience
3 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
Wed Oct 28 · 1:50 PM ET
100 h
PLAY
68%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Wed Oct 28 · 5:02 PM ET
96 h
PLAY
68%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 29 · 2:10 AM ET
87 h
SIT
35%
UNLIKELY
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 29 · 7:02 AM ET
82 h
SIT
35%
UNLIKELY
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 29 · 12:05 PM ET
77 h
SIT
35%
UNLIKELY
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 29 · 5:05 PM ET
72 h
SIT
35%
UNLIKELY
after his team's announcement
Fri Oct 30 · 2:10 AM ET
63 h
PLAY
65%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Fri Oct 30 · 7:05 AM ET
58 h
PLAY
65%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Fri Oct 30 · 12:05 PM ET
53 h
PLAY
65%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Fri Oct 30 · 5:02 PM ET
48 h
PLAY
65%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 31 · 2:10 AM ET
39 h
PLAY
85%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 31 · 7:05 AM ET
34 h
PLAY
85%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 31 · 12:02 PM ET
29 h
PLAY
85%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 31 · 5:06 PM ET
24 h
PLAY
85%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Sun Nov 1 · 6:06 AM ET
10 h
PLAY
85%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Sun Nov 1 · 11:02 AM ET
5 h
PLAY
85%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Sun Nov 1 · 3:10 PM ET
1 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's published inactive list, on the day
Sun Nov 1 · 4:02 PM ET
0 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's published inactive list, on the day
16 calls in week 8, flipping between PLAY and SIT 2 times. 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 4 of 4.
Last week, when he was on the report
Last week
His team said
Our call
Played
Week 7
Questionable
PLAY
yes
What this page does not show
the reader's opinion — it has not read him in week 8.