QB · New Orleans Saints · week 7 vs Pittsburgh Steelers · Sun Oct 25 · 9:30 AM ET
Spencer Rattler
ROLE a backup
CLASS 2024 · R5 P150
EXP 2 seasons
AGE 25-28
DEPTH QB2
42%SITCOIN FLIP
As of week 7, Spencer Rattler was a QB for NO, age 25.9, 2 seasons of experience, drafted in round 5. In 2026 through week 6 he was listed at depth rank 2 on his club's depth chart; he had played 1 game on 3% of snaps. Before 2026 he played 16 games (postseason included) over 2 seasons. His injury history held 2 episodes (hand 1, hip 1); the last was a hand injury in 2025 week 18.
The full read
How our call moved in week 7
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42%42%42%42%42%42%42%42%
Thu 4:01 PM ETSun 7:05 AM ET
our call, P(plays)
42% COIN FLIP → 42% COIN FLIP
Every call we wrote for him in week 7, earliest first, as written.
In short
Spencer Rattler is a backup at quarterback for NO — 3% of the snaps in his best week of 1. He has a knee injury. In week 7 he practised in full every day the report covers. His team has not listed him on the final report. We say he sits — 42%, in a band that plays 34% of the time. We have said SIT since 66 hours before kickoff.
The reader concurs · grade B
The Friday club report lists Rattler at FULL participation with a knee issue and assigns him no game designation, with only Shepherd and Ruiz questionable (P1), so nothing written suggests he is health-limited — this is a role question, not an availability question. The same report and Thursday's show starter QB Tyler Shough also practicing in FULL despite a hand injury (P1, P2), which is written support for Shough starting and Rattler remaining the unused backup, consistent with the SIT call. No passage names Rattler as a starter, describes a rotation, or reports any Shough downgrade, so nothing contradicts the model's call even though his health is plainly fine. It would need to know: Saturday or game-day Saints status report / inactive list for Sun 25 Oct showing whether Rattler dresses as QB2 or is the emergency third QB; Any Kellen Moore remark naming the Week 7 starting QB or describing a designed Rattler package/rotation; Confirmation that Tyler Shough's hand injury carries no in-game limitation, snap restriction, or late downgrade; Whether a third QB is on the active roster, which would change Rattler's dress status
What the read cites
What was reported
Source
1
“QB Spencer Rattler (knee)”
Steelers Depot · 2026-10-23
2
“QB Tyler Shough (hand)”
Steelers Depot · 2026-10-23
3
“st two players are designated as questionable.”
Steelers Depot · 2026-10-23
4
“FULL
QB Tyler Shough (hand)”
Steelers Depot · 2026-10-22
8versions in week 7
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
COIN FLIP since Thu Oct 22 · 4:01 PM ET · 66 h before kickoff. Biggest move: 42% → 42%, Sat Oct 24 · 12:11 AM ET to Sat Oct 24 · 7:02 AM ET, with no club report in between.
Our call · week 7
NOT EXPECTEDUNLIKELYCOIN FLIPLIKELYEXPECTED
42% · COIN FLIP
a genuine coin flip — this band plays 34% of the time (31–38%), measured out of fold. We do not stand behind a call in this band, and say so rather than dress it up.
Practice in week 7
Fri
Thu
FPdated Fri Oct 23
FPdated Fri Oct 23
Shape of the week: steady. 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
Kickoff
Stats, with ranges
fewer than 2 games this season
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
3%wk 6
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
1
1
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 7
knee
1
—
2025 · wk 18
hand
1
Questionable
2024 · wk 8
hip
1
—
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 3 episodes · 3 weeks on a report
2024
hip · 1w
2025
hand · 1w
2026
knee · 1w
Weeks 1–18
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.
Our past calls vs what happened
Wk 7SIT 42% ✓ rightbefore his team said anything; did not play
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 in week 7
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
Davon Godchaux
DT
FULL
ours
PLAY
74%
LIKELY
Alvin Kamara
RB
LTD
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Daniel Carlson
K
FULL
ours
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
Nathan Shepherd
DT
DNP
team's word
Questionable
Kaden Elliss
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
Anfernee Jennings
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
93%
EXPECTED
Cesar Ruiz
G
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Zach Wilson
QB
UNK
team's word
—
John Ridgeway
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Tyree Wilson
DE
UNK
team's word
—
Asim Richards
T
FULL
ours
PLAY
88%
EXPECTED
Treyton Welch
TE
UNK
team's word
—
Mason Tipton
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Kool-Aid McKinstry
CB
FULL
ours
PLAY
98%
EXPECTED
Quincy Riley
CB
UNK
ours
PLAY
58%
COIN FLIP
Michael Reid
SAF
UNK
team's word
—
Tyler Shough
QB
FULL
ours
PLAY
78%
LIKELY
Jordyn Tyson
WR
UNK
team's word
—
CJ Donaldson
RB
FULL
ours
PLAY
83%
LIKELY
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 Thu Oct 22 · 4:01 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 22 · 5:05 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Fri Oct 23 · 3:14 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 24 · 12:11 AM ET
What was reported
Source
“QB Spencer Rattler (knee)”
Steelers Depot · Thu Oct 22
From the same articles (these quotes do not name him)
What was reported
Source
“FULL
QB Tyler Shough (hand)”
Steelers Depot · Thu Oct 22
“SAINTS' WEEK 7 THURSDAY INJURY REPORT”
Steelers Depot · Thu Oct 22
The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 24 · 7:02 AM ET
What was reported
Source
“QB Spencer Rattler (knee)”
Steelers Depot · Thu Oct 22
From the same articles (these quotes do not name him)
What was reported
Source
“FULL
QB Tyler Shough (hand)”
Steelers Depot · Thu Oct 22
“SAINTS' WEEK 7 THURSDAY INJURY REPORT”
Steelers Depot · Thu Oct 22
The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 24 · 12:02 PM ET
From the same articles (these quotes do not name him)
What was reported
Source
“st two players are designated as questionable.”
Steelers Depot · Fri Oct 23
“SAINTS' WEEK 7 THURSDAY INJURY REPORT”
Steelers Depot · Thu Oct 22
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 7
Role
QB2 · 3% snaps
Season
2026 · 1 game through wk 6
Career
2 seasons · 16 games before 2026
Injuries
2 episodes · last: hand, 2025 wk 18
Bio
age 25.9 · 2 seasons' experience · drafted round 5
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 backup at quarterback — 3% of the snaps in his best week of 1
Listed on the depth chart
second at quarterback
Last week
He did not dress last week
Snaps played
3% a week on average over 1 week, 3% at his highest
Build
6 ft 0 in · 211 lb
College
South Carolina; Oklahoma
Drafted
2024, round 5 pick 150, by NO
Age
25-28 at the season's start
Experience
2 seasons
When this call was made, and when the world knew
WrittenWe first said SIT.
PublicOur call became public, at kickoff.
KickoffKickoff.
How our call moved, earliest first
When
Lead
Call
Chance he plays
Band
On what
Thu Oct 22 · 4:01 PM ET
66 h
SIT
42%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Thu Oct 22 · 5:05 PM ET
64 h
SIT
42%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 23 · 3:14 AM ET
54 h
SIT
42%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 24 · 12:11 AM ET
33 h
SIT
42%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 24 · 7:02 AM ET
27 h
SIT
42%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 24 · 12:02 PM ET
22 h
SIT
42%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 24 · 5:02 PM ET
17 h
SIT
42%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Sun Oct 25 · 7:05 AM ET
2 h
SIT
42%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
8 calls in week 7, and the call never flipped between PLAY and SIT. 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.
His record this season
Wk
Practice
Chance he plays
Call
Source
Played
7
FULL
42%
SIT
before his team said anything
no
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.