SAF · New Orleans Saints · week 5 vs New York Giants · Sun Oct 18 · 1:00 PM ET
As of week 5, Michael Reid was an SAF for NO, age 24.3, 1 season of experience. In 2026 through week 4 he was listed at depth rank 2 on his club's depth chart; he had played 4 games on 0% of snaps. No injury episode was on file.
How our call moved this week
77% LIKELY → 79% LIKELY
Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.
Michael Reid is a special-teams player at left cornerback for NO — 60% of the kicking snaps over 4 weeks. He has a not stated injury. His team named him inactive in weeks 5 and 6. This week he practised limited, then practised in full. His team has not listed him on the final report. We called him PLAY in week 5 and he did not play.
LIKELY since Thu Oct 8 · 7:01 AM ET · 78 h before kickoff. Biggest move: 77% → 79%, Thu Oct 8 · 5:01 PM ET to Fri Oct 9 · 7:01 AM ET, after: practiced more (Limited Participation in Practice → Full Participation in Practice).
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
| Fri | Thu | Wed |
|---|---|---|
| FPdated Fri Oct 9 | FPdated Fri Oct 9 | LPdated Fri Oct 9 |
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.
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
wk 1–4 · 4 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
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 | — |
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 1 episode · 1 week on a report
Weeks 1–18
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davon Godchaux | DT | FULL | ours | PLAY | 99% | EXPECTED |
| Alvin Kamara | RB | LTD | team's word | Questionable | ||
| Kaden Elliss | LB | DNP | team's word | Out | ||
| Carl Granderson | LB | FULL | ours | PLAY | 99% | EXPECTED |
| Noah Fant | TE | FULL | ours | PLAY | 88% | EXPECTED |
| Anfernee Jennings | LB | DNP | team's word | Out | ||
| Julian Blackmon | S | LTD | team's word | Questionable | ||
| Chris Olave | WR | FULL | ours | PLAY | 99% | EXPECTED |
| Jaylan Ford | LB | FULL | team's word | Questionable | ||
| Jayden Price | CB | FULL | ours | PLAY | 77% | LIKELY |
| Tyler Shough | QB | FULL | ours | PLAY | 80% | LIKELY |
| Jeremiah Wright | G | DNP | team's word | Out | ||
| Lorenzo Styles Jr. | CB | FULL | team's word | Questionable | ||
| Barion Brown | WR | FULL | team's word | Questionable | ||
| Christen Miller | DT | DNP | team's word | Questionable |
The model reads the room: who else is out shifts what his own designation is worth.
Profile — as of week 5
| Role | SAF2 · 0% snaps |
| Season | 2026 · 4 games through wk 4 |
| Injuries | none on file |
| Bio | age 24.3 · 1 season' experience |
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.
About him
| About him | As the record holds it |
|---|---|
| His role | a special-teams player at left cornerback — 60% of the kicking snaps over 4 weeks |
| Listed on the depth chart | third at left cornerback |
| Snaps played | 0% a week on average over 4 weeks, 0% at his highest, 60% on special teams |
| Build | 6 ft 2 in · 200 lb |
| College | South Dakota; Monmouth |
| Drafted | undrafted |
| Age | under 25 at the season's start |
| Experience | 1 season |
When this call was made, and when the world knew
How our call moved, earliest first
| When | Lead | Call | Chance he plays | Band | On what |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu Oct 8 · 7:01 AM ET | 78 h | PLAY | 77% | LIKELY | before his team said anything |
| Thu Oct 8 · 12:01 PM ET | 73 h | PLAY | 77% | LIKELY | before his team said anything |
| Thu Oct 8 · 5:01 PM ET | 68 h | PLAY | 77% | LIKELY | before his team said anything |
| Fri Oct 9 · 7:01 AM ET | 54 h | PLAY | 79% | LIKELY | before his team said anything |
| Fri Oct 9 · 12:01 PM ET | 49 h | PLAY | 79% | LIKELY | before his team said anything |
| Fri Oct 9 · 5:01 PM ET | 44 h | PLAY | 79% | LIKELY | before his team said anything |
| Sat Oct 10 · 7:01 AM ET | 30 h | PLAY | 79% | LIKELY | before his team said anything |
| Sat Oct 10 · 12:01 PM ET | 25 h | PLAY | 79% | LIKELY | before his team said anything |
| Sat Oct 10 · 5:01 PM ET | 20 h | PLAY | 79% | LIKELY | before his team said anything |
| Sun Oct 11 · 7:01 AM ET | 6 h | PLAY | 79% | LIKELY | before his team said anything |
| Sun Oct 11 · 12:01 PM ET | 1 h | PLAY | 79% | LIKELY | before his team said anything |
| Sun Oct 11 · 12:11 PM ET | 1 h | his team's word | — | — | his team's published inactive list, on the day |
11 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.
His record this season
| Wk | Practice | Chance he plays | Call | Source | Played |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | LTD | 77% | PLAY | before his team said anything | no |
| 6 | UNK | — | his team's word | his team's published inactive list, on the day | no |
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.
The team's own list. We held it before kickoff, so it could have informed a call. Matched to him by his player id.
The team's own list. We held it before kickoff, so it could have informed a call. Matched to him by his player id.
the reader's opinion — it has not read him this week.