WR · Denver Broncos · week 5 vs Arizona Cardinals · Sun Oct 25 · 4:05 PM ET
Pat Bryant
TYPE Possession receiver
ROLE a starter
CLASS 2025 · R3 P74
EXP 1 season
AGE under 25
DEPTH WR6
As of week 5, Pat Bryant was a WR for DEN, age 23.7, 1 season of experience, drafted in round 3. In 2026 through week 4 he had played 4 games on 58% of snaps; his line was 33.2 receiving yards a game, 3 targets a game and a 9.6% target share (Possession receiver by the published rule). Before 2026 he played 17 games (postseason included) over 1 season. His injury history held 3 episodes (concussion 1, hamstring 1, shoulder 1), 2 of them reaching OUT; the last was a concussion injury in 2025 week 21.
The full read
How our call moved in week 5
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51%51%51%51%51%51%51%51%
Fri 7:01 AM ETSun 12:01 PM ET
our call, P(plays)
51% COIN FLIP → 51% COIN FLIP
Every call we wrote for him in week 5, earliest first, as written.
In short
Pat Bryant is a starter at wide receiver for DEN — 70% of the snaps in his best week of 4. He has a not stated injury. In week 5 he did not practise every day the report covers. His team has not listed him on the final report. We called him PLAY in week 7 and he did not play.
8versions in week 5
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
COIN FLIP since Fri Oct 9 · 7:01 AM ET · 57 h before kickoff. Biggest move: 51% → 51%, Fri Oct 9 · 5:01 PM ET to Sat Oct 10 · 7:01 AM ET, with no club report in between.
His team's own announcement
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 reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended).
Practice in week 5
Thu
Wed
DNPdated Fri Oct 9
DNPdated Fri Oct 9
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.
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
Rec yds / game33 range 0.0–47
wk 1–4 · 4 games
Targets / game3.0 range 1.0–6.0
wk 1–4 · 4 games
Target share9.6% range 3–22
wk 1–4 · 4 games
Snap share57.8% range 36–70
wk 1–4 · 4 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
59%wk 1
66%wk 2
70%wk 3
36%wk 4
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 5
ankle
1
—
2025 · wk 17
concussion
3
Out
2025 · wk 14
hamstring
3
Out
2025 · wk 13
shoulder
1
—
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 4 episodes · 8 weeks on a report
2025
concussion · 3whamstring · 3wshoulder · 1w
2026
ankle · 1w
Weeks 1–18
ruled out
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 5SIT 51% ✓ rightbefore his team said anything; did not play
Wk 7PLAY 67% ✗ missbefore his team said anything; did not play
Season on him: 1 of 2 graded calls 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 5
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
D.J. Jones
DT
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Zach Allen
DE
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Adam Trautman
TE
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Pat Surtain II
CB
DNP
team's word
Out
Tyler Badie
RB
FULL
ours
PLAY
90%
EXPECTED
Dondrea Tillman
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
87%
EXPECTED
Riley Moss
CB
DNP
team's word
Out
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 Fri Oct 9 · 7:01 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Fri Oct 9 · 12:01 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Fri Oct 9 · 5:01 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 10 · 7:01 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 10 · 12:01 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 10 · 5:01 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sun Oct 11 · 7:01 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Sun Oct 11 · 12:01 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The data behind this page — the timeline in words, every call and week on record, about him, and what this page does not show
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 wide receiver — 70% of the snaps in his best week of 4
Listed on the depth chart
number 6 at wide receiver
Snaps played
58% a week on average over 4 weeks, 70% at his highest, 12% on special teams
Build
6 ft 2 in · 204 lb
College
Illinois
Drafted
2025, round 3 pick 74, by DEN
Age
under 25 at the season's start
Experience
1 season
When this call was made, and when the world knew
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
Fri Oct 9 · 7:01 AM ET
57 h
SIT
51%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 9 · 12:01 PM ET
52 h
SIT
51%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 9 · 5:01 PM ET
47 h
SIT
51%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 10 · 7:01 AM ET
33 h
SIT
51%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 10 · 12:01 PM ET
28 h
SIT
51%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 10 · 5:01 PM ET
23 h
SIT
51%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Sun Oct 11 · 7:01 AM ET
9 h
SIT
51%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
Sun Oct 11 · 12:01 PM ET
4 h
SIT
51%
COIN FLIP
before his team said anything
8 calls in week 5, 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
5
DNP
51%
SIT
before his team said anything
no
7
UNK
67%
PLAY
before his team said anything
no
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.
What this page does not show
the reader's opinion — it has not read him in week 5.