DT · San Francisco 49ers · week 6 vs Washington Commanders · Mon Oct 19 · 8:15 PM ET
Gracen Halton
ROLE in the rotation
CLASS 2026 · R4 P107
EXP 0 seasons
AGE under 25
DEPTH RDT1
As of week 6, Gracen Halton was a DT for SF, age 22.6, a rookie, drafted in round 4. In 2026 through week 5 he was listed at depth rank 1 on his club's depth chart; he had played 5 games on 46% of snaps; his line was 3.5 tackles a game, 0.2 sacks a game and 0.2 passes defended a game. His injury history held 1 episode (ankle 1); the last was an ankle injury in 2026 week 1.
The full read
How our call moved this week
100500
his club's word: Questionable40%40%40%40%68%68%68%67%67%67%
Sat 2:16 AM ETMon 5:01 PM ET
our call, P(plays)
club report (public)
40% COIN FLIP → 67% LIKELY
Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.
In short
Gracen Halton is in the rotation at right defensive tackle for SF — 54% of the snaps in his best week of 6. He has a quadricep injury. His team has listed him Questionable. We called him SIT in week 6 and he played.
The reader concurs · grade C
The quadriceps is a CURRENT problem: San Francisco added Halton to the report Thursday 15 Oct and he did not practice (P4), then was a non-participant again Friday (P1), described as 'worked in pads on the side' (P3) and 'working on the side' (P2) — rehab, not participation, which is mild evidence against the dossier's LTD line and against a 67% play number. Nothing written, however, rules him out or assigns a game status: the Mercury News notes official statuses were not due until Saturday (P3), and the two remaining practices (Sat/Sun) are unreported, so the dossier's measured LTD is plausibly a later-week upgrade. On the written record there is no affirmative contradiction of the PLAY call, only thin and slightly adverse context, so I concur on the call while flagging the missing final designation. It would need to know: 49ers official participation report for Sat 17 Oct and Sun 18 Oct — did Halton upgrade from DNP to limited, and on which day; Final game-status designation (Out/Doubtful/Questionable) issued Sat 17/Sun 18 Oct for Monday 19 Oct vs Washington; Any Shanahan or Lynch remark on the severity/timeline of Halton's quadriceps, or an IR/elevation roster move involving him; Whether James Thompson Jr. (high-ankle, returned to practice Fri) and the rest of the interior DT rotation are available Monday, which drives how hard SF pushes Halton to dress
What the read cites
What was reported
Source
1
“The 49ers added defensive tackle Gracen Halton to the report with a quadriceps issue, and he did not practice.”
49ers Webzone · 2026-10-15
2
“Here were the players who did not participate during Friday's practice:”
Niners Nation · 2026-10-16
3
“Defensive tackle Gracen Halton (quadriceps) did not practice a second straight day but worked in pads on the side.”
Mercury News · 2026-10-16
4
“Defensive tackle Gracen Halton, who is dealing with a quadriceps injury, and offensive tackle Colton McKivitz, who is battling an illness, were also seen working on the side.”
49ers Webzone · 2026-10-16
5
“although his official status won't be revealed until Saturday”
Mercury News · 2026-10-16
10versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
LIKELY since Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET · 37 h before kickoff · after the club said it (-5 h). Biggest move: 40% → 68%, Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET to Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET, after: given a designation (Questionable); practiced more (Did Not Participate In Practice → Limited Participation in Practice).
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.
No dated practice report for him this week
The team has not published one we can date, or the window has not reached it. Not the same as his having practiced.
Head start
His club's word
Kickoff
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
Tackles / game3.0 range 1.0–5.0
wk 2–6 · 5 games
Sacks / game0.4 range 0.0–1.0
wk 2–6 · 5 games
Passes defended / game0.2 range 0.0–1.0
wk 2–6 · 5 games
Snap share44.5% range 34–54
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
51%wk 1
54%wk 2
34%wk 3
38%wk 4
54%wk 5
36%wk 6
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
2
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 6
quad
1
Questionable
2026 · wk 1
ankle
1
—
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 2 episodes · 2 weeks on a report
2026
quad · 1wankle · 1w
Weeks 1–18
questionable
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 6SIT 40% ✗ missafter his team's announcement; played
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
Trent Williams
T
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Kyle Juszczyk
FB
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Mike Evans
WR
DNP
team's word
Questionable
Demarcus Robinson
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Christian McCaffrey
RB
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Siran Neal
S
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Christian Kirk
WR
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Nick Bosa
DE
DNP
team's word
Out
Deebo Samuel Sr.
WR
DNP
team's word
Out
Brett Toth
G
UNK
team's word
—
Austen Pleasants
OL
UNK
team's word
—
Colton McKivitz
T
FULL
ours
PLAY
98%
EXPECTED
Brandon Aiyuk
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Darrick Forrest
SAF
UNK
team's word
—
Naquan Jones
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Garret Wallow
LB
DNP
team's word
Out
Nate Hobbs
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Jake Tonges
TE
UNK
team's word
—
Sam Okuayinonu
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Nick Zakelj
OT
UNK
team's word
—
Andrew Farmer II
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Isaac Guerendo
RB
UNK
team's word
—
Jacob Cowing
WR
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Ricky Pearsall
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Nick Martin
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Upton Stout
CB
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Marques Sigle
S
DNP
team's word
Out
Kurtis Rourke
QB
UNK
team's word
—
Mykel Williams
DE
LTD
team's word
Questionable
C.J. West
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Alfred Collins
DT
UNK
team's word
—
De'Zhaun Stribling
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Kaelon Black
RB
DNP
ours
PLAY
77%
LIKELY
Carver Willis
G
FULL
ours
PLAY
80%
LIKELY
Enrique Cruz Jr.
OT
UNK
team's word
—
Mikail Kamara
DE
UNK
team's word
—
James Thompson Jr.
DT
FULL
ours
PLAY
95%
EXPECTED
Romello Height
DE
LTD
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
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
Role
DT1 · 46% snaps
Season
2026 · 5 games through wk 5
Per game
3.5 tackles · 0.2 sacks · 0.2 passes defended
Injuries
1 episode · last: ankle, 2026 wk 1
Bio
age 22.6 · rookie · drafted round 4
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.
in the rotation at right defensive tackle — 54% of the snaps in his best week of 6
Listed on the depth chart
first at right defensive tackle
Snaps played
45% a week on average over 6 weeks, 54% at his highest, 12% on special teams
Build
6 ft 3 in · 293 lb
College
Oklahoma
Drafted
2026, round 4 pick 107, by SF
Age
under 25 at the season's start
Experience
0 seasons
When this call was made, and when the world knew
Team reportHis team listed him Questionable.
PublicHis team's word was public as soon as it was filed.
KickoffKickoff.
How our call moved, earliest first
When
Lead
Call
Chance he plays
Band
On what
Sat Oct 17 · 2:16 AM ET
66 h
SIT
40%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET
61 h
SIT
40%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 12:02 PM ET
56 h
SIT
40%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET
51 h
SIT
40%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET
37 h
PLAY
68%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 12:02 PM ET
32 h
PLAY
68%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 5:05 PM ET
27 h
PLAY
68%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Mon Oct 19 · 7:01 AM ET
13 h
PLAY
67%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Mon Oct 19 · 12:02 PM ET
8 h
PLAY
67%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Mon Oct 19 · 5:01 PM ET
3 h
PLAY
67%
LIKELY
after his team's announcement
Mon Oct 19 · 6:59 PM ET
1 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's published inactive list, on the day
10 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 1 (listed first on his depth chart), 12 documents deep, because: llm_unsure. Fetched 12 of 12.
His record this season
Wk
Practice
Chance he plays
Call
Source
Played
6
DNP
40%
SIT
after his team's announcement
yes
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.