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As of week 7, CJ Donaldson was an RB for NO, age 22.1, a rookie. In 2026 through week 6 he was listed at depth rank 3 on his club's depth chart; he had played 6 games on 29% of snaps; his line was 13.5 rush yards a game, 2.8 carries a game and 1.7 receiving yards a game (Committee back by the published rule). No injury episode was on file.
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In short
CJ Donaldson is in the rotation at running back for NO — 42% of the snaps in his best week of 7. He left last week's game. Of players in that position who did play the following week, 45% took under 70% of their usual snaps. In week 7 he practised limited, then practised in full. His team has not listed him on the final report.
The reader concurs · grade A
The club's final Friday report lists Donaldson under FULL with the shoulder and attaches no designation; the only names carrying questionable tags are Shepherd and Ruiz (P1). That caps an improving arc from Wednesday's limited listing (P3) through Thursday's explicit upgrade note that he 'was upgraded from limited to full' (P2). No passage mentions a setback, a new injury, or any risk to his status for Sunday's Paris game, so the PLAY call stands. It would need to know: Sunday inactive list for the Week 7 Paris game vs Pittsburgh, in case a healthy third-string back is a roster scratch; Whether Alvin Kamara (back, limited all three days per P1) plays, which affects Donaldson's workload though not his availability
LIKELY since Thu Oct 22 · 4:21 PM ET · 65 h before kickoff. Biggest move: 82% → 55%, Wed Oct 21 · 6:40 PM ET to Wed Oct 21 · 6:49 PM ET, with no club report in between.
We have made a call on him in week 7
It is written down and timestamped, and it is not being published at the moment.
Where he sits on this scale is published with the call.
Practice in week 7
Fri
Thu
Wed
FPdated Fri Oct 23
FPdated Fri Oct 23
LPdated Fri Oct 23
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
Rush yds / game14 range 2.0–39
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Carries / game2.8 range 1.0–6.0
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Rec yds / game1.7 range -2.0–7.0
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Snap share26.0% range 7–42
wk 1–7 · 7 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
17%wk 1
29%wk 2
16%wk 3
38%wk 4
42%wk 5
33%wk 6
7%wk 7
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 7
shoulder
1
—
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 1 episode · 1 week on a report
2026
shoulder · 1w
Weeks 1–18
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 7PLAY 82% ✓ 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 in week 7
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
Davon Godchaux
DT
FULL
ours
PLAY
74%
LIKELY
Alvin Kamara
RB
LTD
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Daniel Carlson
K
FULL
ours
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
Nathan Shepherd
DT
DNP
team's word
Questionable
Kaden Elliss
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
Anfernee Jennings
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
93%
EXPECTED
Cesar Ruiz
G
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Zach Wilson
QB
UNK
team's word
—
John Ridgeway
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Tyree Wilson
DE
UNK
team's word
—
Asim Richards
T
FULL
ours
PLAY
88%
EXPECTED
Spencer Rattler
QB
FULL
ours
SIT
42%
COIN FLIP
Treyton Welch
TE
UNK
team's word
—
Mason Tipton
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Kool-Aid McKinstry
CB
FULL
ours
PLAY
98%
EXPECTED
Quincy Riley
CB
UNK
ours
PLAY
58%
COIN FLIP
Michael Reid
SAF
UNK
team's word
—
Tyler Shough
QB
FULL
ours
PLAY
78%
LIKELY
Jordyn Tyson
WR
UNK
team's word
—
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 Wed Oct 21 · 6:40 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Wed Oct 21 · 6:49 PM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 22 · 2:10 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 22 · 7:02 AM ET
We have not read the news for this player this week.
The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 22 · 12:05 PM ET
We read the news for this call. The quotes we found are not shown publicly.
The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 22 · 4:01 PM ET
We read the news for this call. The quotes we found are not shown publicly.
The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 22 · 4:21 PM ET
We read the news for this call. The quotes we found are not shown publicly.
The evidence behind the call made Thu Oct 22 · 5:05 PM ET
We read the news for this call. The quotes we found are not shown publicly.
The evidence behind the call made Fri Oct 23 · 3:14 AM ET
We read the news for this call. The quotes we found are not shown publicly.
The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 24 · 12:11 AM ET
What was reported
Source
“RB CJ Donaldson was upgraded from limited to full. The undrafted rookie has had a role in New Orleans' backfield this year as the team looks for a spark.”
The evidence behind the call made Sat Oct 24 · 7:02 AM ET
What was reported
Source
“RB CJ Donaldson was upgraded from limited to full. The undrafted rookie has had a role in New Orleans' backfield this year as the team looks for a spark.”
“RB CJ Donaldson was upgraded from limited to full. The undrafted rookie has had a role in New Orleans' backfield this year as the team looks for a spark.”
Steelers Depot · Thu Oct 22
From the same articles (these quotes do not name him)
“RB CJ Donaldson was upgraded from limited to full. The undrafted rookie has had a role in New Orleans' backfield this year as the team looks for a spark.”
Steelers Depot · Thu Oct 22
From the same articles (these quotes do not name him)
“RB CJ Donaldson was upgraded from limited to full. The undrafted rookie has had a role in New Orleans' backfield this year as the team looks for a spark.”
Steelers Depot · Thu Oct 22
From the same articles (these quotes do not name him)
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.
in the rotation at running back — 42% of the snaps in his best week of 7
Listed on the depth chart
third at running back
Last week
He left last week's game — far below his usual share
Snaps played
26% a week on average over 7 weeks, 42% at his highest, 54% on special teams
Build
6 ft 1 in · 230 lb
College
Ohio State; West Virginia
Drafted
undrafted
Age
under 25 at the season's start
Experience
0 seasons
How our call moved, earliest first
When
Lead
Call
Chance he plays
Band
On what
Wed Oct 21 · 6:40 PM ET
87 h
PLAY
82%
LIKELY
before his team said anything
Wed Oct 21 · 6:49 PM ET
87 h
PLAY
55%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 2:10 AM ET
79 h
PLAY
58%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 7:02 AM ET
75 h
PLAY
58%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 12:05 PM ET
69 h
PLAY
58%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 4:01 PM ET
66 h
PLAY
58%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Thu Oct 22 · 4:21 PM ET
65 h
PLAY
82%
LIKELY
before his team said anything
Thu Oct 22 · 5:05 PM ET
64 h
PLAY
82%
LIKELY
before his team said anything
Fri Oct 23 · 3:14 AM ET
54 h
PLAY
83%
LIKELY
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 24 · 12:11 AM ET
33 h
PLAY
83%
LIKELY
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 24 · 7:02 AM ET
27 h
PLAY
83%
LIKELY
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 24 · 12:02 PM ET
22 h
PLAY
83%
LIKELY
before his team said anything
Sat Oct 24 · 5:02 PM ET
17 h
PLAY
83%
LIKELY
before his team said anything
Sun Oct 25 · 7:05 AM ET
2 h
PLAY
83%
LIKELY
before his team said anything
14 calls in week 7, 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 3 (listed third or deeper, or not listed), 5 documents deep, because: llm_unsure. Fetched 1 of 1.
His record this season
Wk
Practice
Chance he plays
Call
Source
Played
7
LTD
82%
PLAY
before his team said anything
yes
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.