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WR · Los Angeles Chargers · week 6 vs Kansas City Chiefs · Sun Oct 18 · 4:25 PM ET

KeAndre Lambert-Smith

  • ROLE a starter
  • CLASS 2025 · R5 P158
  • EXP 1 season
  • AGE under 25
  • DEPTH KR2

As of week 6, KeAndre Lambert-Smith was a WR for LAC, age 24.9, 1 season of experience, drafted in round 5. In 2026 through week 5 he had played 1 game on 0% of snaps. Before 2026 he played 10 games (postseason included) over 1 season. His injury history held 2 episodes (hamstring 2), 1 of them reaching OUT, 1 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was a hamstring injury in 2025 week 19.

The full read

How our call moved this week

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

78% LIKELY → 78% LIKELY

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

In short

KeAndre Lambert-Smith is a starter at kick returner for LAC — 87% of the snaps in his best week of 2. He has a hamstring injury. This week he practised limited, then practised in full. His team has listed him Questionable.

The reader concurs · grade B

P2 states his status is a practice window, not a roster spot — 'KeAndre Lambert-Smith had his 21-day practice window open now that he’s past his four-game minimum on IR' — so he must be formally activated to the 53 before 18 Oct, and no passage documents that step. P1, the club's own midweek report, lists him among players who 'were all limited participants' with the hamstring, which contradicts the dossier's FULL practice input and undercuts the 80% starting cell. Both passages point the same way as the SIT call, so I concur with the call even though I would put the probability far below 0.340. It would need to know: Chargers transaction wire 16–17 Oct: was Lambert-Smith activated from IR to the 53-man roster before Sunday 18 Oct?; Friday 16 Oct practice participation level and the final injury report designation (Out/Doubtful/Questionable) for Lambert-Smith; Any Jim Harbaugh comment on activating Lambert-Smith before the bye versus leaving him on IR; Whether a corresponding 53-man roster move was made to create a spot

5versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player

How the call moved

LIKELY since Thu Oct 15 · 7:01 AM ET · 81 h before kickoff · 43 h before the club. Biggest move: 78% → 78%, Thu Oct 15 · 5:01 PM ET to Fri Oct 16 · 7:01 AM 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 reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended).

Practice this week

FriThuWed
FPdated Sun Oct 18LPdated Sun Oct 18LPdated Sun Oct 18

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

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

  • Snap share43.5% range 0–87

    wk 1–6 · 2 games

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

  1. 0%wk 1
  2. 87%wk 6

Missed while on the injury report

SeasonWeeks on the reportMissed while listed
202610

Only the weeks he was on the injury report with a recorded result — not every game of his career.

Medical history

WhenInjuryWeeks on a reportWorst status
2026 · wk 6hamstring1Questionable
2025 · wk 19hamstring1Out
2025 · wk 10hamstring1Questionable

Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.

Injury history by season · 3 episodes · 3 weeks on a report · same site more than once: hamstring ×3

  • questionable

Each bar is one episode: the week it began and how many weeks he was on a report, coloured by the worst status. One that began after week 18 is in the table above and not drawn here.

Our past calls vs what happened

Wk 6PLAY 78% ✓ rightbefore his team said anything; played

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 this week

PlayerPosPracticeWhose wordCallChance he playsBand
Khalil MackDEFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Denzel PerrymanMLBUNKteam's word—
Bud DupreeDELTDteam's wordQuestionable
Dalvin TomlinsonDTLTDteam's wordQuestionable
David NjokuTEUNKteam's word—
Donte JacksonCBDNPteam's wordOut
Derwin JamesSDNPteam's wordOut
Alec IngoldFBDNPteam's word—
Trey PipkinsOTUNKteam's word—
Tyler BiadaszCUNKteam's word—
Kayode AwosikaGDNPteam's wordOut
Elijah MoldenSFULLoursPLAY98%EXPECTED
Rashawn SlaterOTUNKteam's word—
Trey LanceQBUNKteam's word—
Trevor PenningOTUNKteam's word—
Charlie KolarTEFULLoursPLAY96%EXPECTED
Kendall WilliamsonSFULLoursPLAY85%EXPECTED
Quentin JohnstonWRFULLoursPLAY98%EXPECTED
Daiyan HenleyLBLTDteam's wordQuestionable
Justin EboigbeDEFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Joe AltTDNPteam's wordOut
Ladd McConkeyWRFULLoursPLAY99%EXPECTED
Jamaree CaldwellDTLTDteam's wordQuestionable
Tre HarrisWRDNPteam's wordOut
Rodney ShelleyCBDNPteam's wordDoubtful
Isaiah WorldOTUNKteam's word—
Brenen ThompsonWRLTDteam's wordQuestionable

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

Profile — as of week 6

RoleWR5 · 0% snaps
Season2026 · 1 game through wk 5
Career1 season · 10 games before 2026
Injuries2 episodes · last: hamstring, 2025 wk 19
Bioage 24.9 · 1 season' 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.

nflverse injuries_2026.csv

About him

About himAs the record holds it
His rolea starter at kick returner — 87% of the snaps in his best week of 2
Listed on the depth chartsecond at kick returner
Last weekHe did not dress last week
Snaps played44% a week on average over 2 weeks, 87% at his highest, 6% on special teams
Build6 ft 1 in · 182 lb
CollegeAuburn; Penn State
Drafted2025, round 5 pick 158, by LAC
Ageunder 25 at the season's start
Experience1 season

When this call was made, and when the world knew

  1. Team reportHis team listed him Questionable.
  2. PublicHis team's word was public as soon as it was filed.
  3. KickoffKickoff.

How our call moved, earliest first

WhenLeadCallChance he playsBandOn what
Thu Oct 15 · 7:01 AM ET81 hPLAY78%LIKELYbefore his team said anything
Thu Oct 15 · 12:01 PM ET76 hPLAY78%LIKELYbefore his team said anything
Thu Oct 15 · 5:01 PM ET71 hPLAY78%LIKELYbefore his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 7:01 AM ET57 hPLAY78%LIKELYbefore his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 12:01 PM ET52 hPLAY78%LIKELYbefore his team said anything
Fri Oct 16 · 3:49 PM ET49 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Fri Oct 16 · 5:02 PM ET47 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Fri Oct 16 · 5:21 PM ET47 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Fri Oct 16 · 7:56 PM ET45 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET33 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sat Oct 17 · 12:02 PM ET28 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET23 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET9 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sun Oct 18 · 7:30 AM ET9 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sun Oct 18 · 12:02 PM ET4 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)
Sun Oct 18 · 1:09 PM ET3 hhis team's word——his team's reserve list (injured reserve, PUP, NFI, suspended)

5 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 3 (listed third or deeper, or not listed), 5 documents deep, because: llm_dissents. Fetched 5 of 5.

His record this season

WkPracticeChance he playsCallSourcePlayed
6LTD78%PLAYbefore his team said anythingyes

A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.