Jamaree Caldwell

How our call moved this week

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

95% EXPECTED → 70% LIKELY

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

In short

Jamaree Caldwell is a starter at nose tackle for LAC — 70% of the snaps in his best week of 5. He has a knee injury. This week he practised limited every day the report covers. His team has listed him Questionable. We called him PLAY in week 6 and he did not play.

The reader concurs · grade B

Both Friday write-ups for this Sunday's Chiefs game place Caldwell in the Questionable bucket, not Doubtful or Out, with Shelley the lone doubtful tag and Alt, Awosika, Harris, Jackson and James the only players ruled out (P1, P2) — he is on the playable side of the club's own line. His practice axis is steady rather than deteriorating: limited Wednesday (P4) and limited again Thursday (P3), and PFT explicitly separates him from the group whose participation suggests they miss another game, listing him among the limited participants rather than the sat-out group (P3). P1 also notes he leads the defensive line in interior snaps this year, with Tomlinson likewise questionable (P1), so the room's thinness argues for using him rather than holding him back; nothing written contradicts the PLAY call. It would need to know: Caldwell's Friday 16 Oct practice participation level (full/limited/DNP) from the final Chargers injury report; Gameday inactives list for the 18 Oct Chargers-Chiefs game; A Harbaugh or club remark on the knee's severity or on resting interior linemen ahead of the bye; Whether Dalvin Tomlinson and Justin Eboigbe are active Sunday, since interior-room depth affects how hard the club leans on Caldwell

What the read cites

How the call moved

LIKELY since Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM ET · 45 h before kickoff · 6 h before the club. Biggest move: 95% → 70%, 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.

Practice this week

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

• His club's word Sat Oct 17 · 2:02 AM ET
• Kickoff Sun Oct 18 · 4:25 PM ET

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

• Tackles / game2.8 range 2.0–5.0

  wk 1–5 · 4 games

• Sacks / game0.0 range 0.0–0.0

  wk 1–5 · 4 games

• Passes defended / game0.0 range 0.0–0.0

  wk 1–5 · 4 games

• Snap share56.4% range 45–70

  wk 1–5 · 5 games

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

1. 53%wk 1
2. 56%wk 2
3. 58%wk 3
4. 70%wk 4
5. 45%wk 5

Our past calls vs what happened

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

The model reads the room: who else is out shifts what his own designation is worth.