TE · Tennessee Titans · week 5 vs Houston Texans · Sun Oct 11 · 1:00 PM ET
Gunnar Helm
TYPE Blocking TE
ROLE a starter
CLASS 2025 · R4 P120
EXP 1 season
AGE under 25
DEPTH TE1
96%PLAYEXPECTED
As of week 5, Gunnar Helm was a TE for TEN, age 24, 1 season of experience, drafted in round 4. In 2026 through week 4 he was listed at depth rank 1 on his club's depth chart; he had played 4 games on 79% of snaps; his line was 15 receiving yards a game, 3 targets a game and a 11.1% target share (Blocking TE by the published rule). Before 2026 he played 16 games (postseason included) over 1 season. His injury history held 1 episode (toe 1), 1 of them reaching OUT; the last was a toe injury in 2025 week 18.
The full read
How our call moved this week
100500
94%94%94%96%96%96%96%96%
Fri 7:01 AM ETSun 12:01 PM ET
our call, P(plays)
94% EXPECTED → 96% EXPECTED
Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.
In short
Gunnar Helm is a starter at tight end for TEN — 87% of the snaps in his best week of 6. He has a knee injury. This week he practised limited, then practised in full. His team has not listed him on the final report. We say he plays — 96%, in a band that plays 96% of the time. We have said PLAY since 54 hours before kickoff.
8versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
EXPECTED since Fri Oct 9 · 7:01 AM ET · 54 h before kickoff. Biggest move: 94% → 96%, Fri Oct 9 · 5:01 PM ET to Sat Oct 10 · 7:01 AM ET, after: practiced more (Limited Participation in Practice → Full Participation in Practice).
This week's call
NOT EXPECTEDUNLIKELYCOIN FLIPLIKELYEXPECTED
96% · EXPECTED
we expect him to play — this band plays 96% of the time (96–97%), measured out of fold. We stand behind this one.
Practice this week
Fri
Thu
FPdated Sat Oct 10
LPdated Sat Oct 10
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
Our call
Kickoff
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
Rec yds / game12 range 0.0–28
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Targets / game2.6 range 1.0–5.0
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Target share9.1% range 3–18
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Snap share76.7% range 71–87
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
76%wk 1
87%wk 2
82%wk 3
72%wk 4
71%wk 5
72%wk 6
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
1
0
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
knee
1
—
2025 · wk 16
toe
3
Out
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 2 episodes · 4 weeks on a report
2025
toe · 3w
2026
knee · 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 5PLAY 94% ✓ 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
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
John Franklin-Myers
DE
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Tony Pollard
RB
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Amani Hooker
S
DNP
team's word
Out
Jeffery Simmons
DT
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Joshua Williams
CB
FULL
ours
PLAY
58%
COIN FLIP
David Martin-Robinson
TE
DNP
ours
SIT
28%
UNLIKELY
Kevin Winston Jr.
S
LTD
ours
PLAY
86%
EXPECTED
Marcus Harris
CB
LTD
ours
PLAY
87%
EXPECTED
Carnell Tate
WR
LTD
ours
PLAY
79%
LIKELY
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
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 tight end — 87% of the snaps in his best week of 6
Listed on the depth chart
first at tight end
Snaps played
77% a week on average over 6 weeks, 87% at his highest, 21% on special teams
Build
6 ft 5 in · 241 lb
College
Texas
Drafted
2025, round 4 pick 120, by TEN
Age
under 25 at the season's start
Experience
1 season
When this call was made, and when the world knew
WrittenWe first said PLAY.
PublicOur call became public, at kickoff.
KickoffKickoff.
How our call moved, earliest first
When
Lead
Call
Chance he plays
Band
On what
Fri Oct 9 · 7:01 AM ET
54 h
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 9 · 12:01 PM ET
49 h
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 9 · 5:01 PM ET
44 h
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 10 · 7:01 AM ET
30 h
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 10 · 12:01 PM ET
25 h
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 10 · 5:01 PM ET
20 h
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sun Oct 11 · 7:01 AM ET
6 h
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
Sun Oct 11 · 12:01 PM ET
1 h
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
before his team said anything
8 calls this week, 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.
We went and found out more
Rank 1 (listed first on his depth chart), 12 documents deep, because: llm_unsure. Fetched 10 of 10.
His record this season
Wk
Practice
Chance he plays
Call
Source
Played
5
LTD
94%
PLAY
before his team said anything
yes
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 this week.