WR · Pittsburgh Steelers · week 6 vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers · Sun Oct 18 · 1:00 PM ET
Roman Wilson
TYPE Deep threat
ROLE a starter
CLASS 2024 · R3 P84
EXP 2 seasons
AGE 25-28
DEPTH PR2
As of week 6, Roman Wilson was a WR for PIT, age 25.2, 2 seasons of experience, drafted in round 3. In 2026 through week 5 he was listed at depth rank 3 on his club's depth chart; he had played 5 games on 47% of snaps; his line was 37.6 receiving yards a game, 5 targets a game and a 14.4% target share (Deep threat by the published rule). Before 2026 he played 14 games (postseason included) over 2 seasons. His injury history held 3 episodes (hamstring 2, ankle 1), 3 of them reaching OUT, 1 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was a hamstring injury in 2024 week 19.
The full read
How our call moved this week
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his club's word: Out56%56%56%55%55%55%55%55%
Thu 7:01 AM ETSat 2:02 AM ET
our call, P(plays)
club report (public)
56% COIN FLIP → 55% COIN FLIP
Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.
In short
Roman Wilson is a starter at punt returner for PIT — 79% of the snaps in his best week of 5. He has a finger injury. His snaps dropped last week. Of players in that position who did play the following week, 43% took under 70% of their usual snaps. His team has listed him Out. We called him PLAY in week 6 and he did not play.
The reader concurs · grade A
A Friday-dated report inside this practice week states the Steelers 'lost Roman Wilson and Ben Skowronek in Week 5 to injuries that will keep each of them out in Week 6' (P1), i.e. this Sunday's game. The club's own Wednesday participation report lists Wilson DNP with the finger (P6), and ESPN's Fowler reported Monday 12 Oct that he is 'expected to miss a couple of weeks' with the dislocated finger (P4, P5). Nothing in the passages points toward availability, so the SIT call stands.
What the read cites
What was reported
Source
1
“the Steelers lost Roman Wilson and Ben Skowronek in Week 5 to injuries that will keep each of them out in Week 6”
Behind The Steel Curtain · 2026-10-16
2
“WR Roman Wilson (finger)”
Steelers Depot · 2026-10-14
3
“Steelers WR Roman Wilson is expected to miss a couple of weeks due to a finger injury suffered Sunday, per source.”
Steelers Depot · 2026-10-12
4
“According to ESPN's Jeremy Fowler, he'll miss multiple games because of it.”
Behind The Steel Curtain · 2026-10-12
8versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
COIN FLIP since Thu Oct 15 · 7:01 AM ET · 78 h before kickoff · 43 h before the club. Biggest move: 55% → 55%, Fri Oct 16 · 3:49 PM ET to Fri Oct 16 · 5:02 PM ET, with no club report in between.
His team's word: Out
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 own word, restated.
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
Kickoff
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
Rec yds / game38 range 0.0–74
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Targets / game5.0 range 1.0–6.0
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Target share14.4% range 3–19
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Snap share47.4% range 31–79
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
55%wk 1
79%wk 2
39%wk 3
31%wk 4
33%wk 5
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 6
hand
1
Out
2024 · wk 18
hamstring
2
Out
2024 · wk 7
hamstring
2
Out
2024 · wk 1
ankle
4
Out
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 4 episodes · 9 weeks on a report · same site more than once: hamstring ×2
2024
hamstring · 2whamstring · 2wankle · 4w
2026
hand · 1w
Weeks 1–18
ruled out
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 6PLAY 56% ✗ missbefore his team said anything; did not play
Season on him: 0 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
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
Cameron Heyward
DT
FULL
ours
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
Jalen Ramsey
CB
LTD
team's word
Questionable
T.J. Watt
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
95%
EXPECTED
DeShon Elliott
S
LTD
team's word
Out
Sean Murphy-Bunting
CB
UNK
team's word
—
DK Metcalf
WR
DNP
ours
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
Jamel Dean
CB
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Rico Dowdle
RB
FULL
team's word
Questionable
Michael Pittman
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Jack Driscoll
OT
UNK
team's word
—
Ben Skowronek
WR
DNP
team's word
Out
Pat Freiermuth
TE
UNK
team's word
Questionable
Terell Smith
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Keeanu Benton
DT
FULL
team's word
Questionable
Logan Lee
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Cole Burgess
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Daequan Hardy
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Will Howard
QB
UNK
team's word
—
Donte Kent
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Derrick Harmon
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Kevin Jobity Jr.
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Gennings Dunker
G
UNK
team's word
—
Eli Heidenreich
RB
UNK
team's word
—
Drew Allar
QB
UNK
team's word
—
The model reads the room: who else is out shifts what his own designation is worth.
The data behind this page — the timeline in words, every call and week on record, about him, and what this page does not show
age 25.2 · 2 seasons' experience · drafted round 3
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 punt returner — 79% of the snaps in his best week of 5
Listed on the depth chart
second at punt returner
Last week
His snaps dropped last week, below his usual share
Snaps played
47% a week on average over 5 weeks, 79% at his highest
Build
6 ft 0 in · 192 lb
College
Michigan
Drafted
2024, round 3 pick 84, by PIT
Age
25-28 at the season's start
Experience
2 seasons
When this call was made, and when the world knew
Team reportHis team listed him Out.
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
Thu Oct 15 · 7:01 AM ET
78 h
PLAY
56%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Thu Oct 15 · 12:01 PM ET
73 h
PLAY
56%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Thu Oct 15 · 5:01 PM ET
68 h
PLAY
56%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 7:01 AM ET
54 h
PLAY
55%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 12:01 PM ET
49 h
PLAY
55%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 3:49 PM ET
45 h
PLAY
55%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 5:02 PM ET
44 h
PLAY
55%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 5:21 PM ET
44 h
PLAY
55%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 7:50 PM ET
41 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's Out, as ESPN's injury report carries it (the league's report had not yet)
Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM ET
41 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's Out, as ESPN's injury report carries it (the league's report had not yet)
Sat Oct 17 · 2:10 AM ET
35 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's own word, restated
Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET
30 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's own word, restated
Sat Oct 17 · 12:02 PM ET
25 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's own word, restated
Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET
20 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's own word, restated
Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET
6 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's own word, restated
Sun Oct 18 · 12:02 PM ET
1 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's own word, restated
8 calls this week, flipping between PLAY and SIT 1 time. 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 2 (listed second on his depth chart), 8 documents deep, because: llm_dissents. Fetched 8 of 8.
His record this season
Wk
Practice
Chance he plays
Call
Source
Played
6
DNP
56%
PLAY
before his team said anything
no
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.