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CIN depth chart — 2026

all 32 charts · published order beside measured opportunity

2025 regular-season opportunity (18 weeks)

first non-fallback render after 2026-09-24

why this ordering is not this season

There is no 2026 measured usage. The nflverse stats_player release has no 2026 weekly asset yet (HTTP 404 for https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data/releases/download/stats_player/stats_player_week_2026.parquet); the first regular-season file is expected ~2026-09-14. This ordering is 2025 data against the 2026 published depth chart, which is a real comparison and is NOT a claim about this season.

what this order rests on8 statements
  • opportunity = carries + targets, from nflverse stats_player_week. It is NOT a snap count: that file carries 150 columns and none of them is one. A player who ran routes and saw no target and a player who never left the sideline are indistinguishable in this number.
  • The ordering is NOT 2026 data. There is no 2026 measured usage. The nflverse stats_player release has no 2026 weekly asset yet (HTTP 404 for https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data/releases/download/stats_player/stats_player_week_2026.parquet); the first regular-season file is expected ~2026-09-14. This ordering is 2025 data against the 2026 published depth chart, which is a real comparison and is NOT a claim about this season. The first non-fallback render is after 2026-09-24, which is seventeen days after the draft.
  • The published depth chart is NOMINAL. This snapshot is preseason and has never been read against a played game; no row here says who was actually on the field.
  • Position appears twice and the columns are not interchangeable. `chartPosition` is where the team lists him and `scoredPosition` is what he is scored as; 2 of the 909 skill rows disagree (Jackson Meeks, chart TE / crosswalk WR; Velus Jones Jr., chart RB / crosswalk WR).
  • A null opportunity means UNOBSERVED, never zero. 365 of 909 players carry one. A player absent from the DynastyProcess crosswalk is not absent from the NFL: 115 of 909 skill rows (12.7%) are absent from it at deep ranks, and no key choice touches that — the miss is a property of the crosswalk, not of the key. This counts rows with NO crosswalk entry, which is not the same population as rows with no gsis id: one player IS in the crosswalk and carries no id, so that second count is one higher. The sentence above is the first of the two.
  • `posRank` is PER-POSITION, not per-slot. A `posRank <= 2` filter on WR excludes the WR3.
  • 137 of the 544 players carrying a 2025 opportunity earned most of it for a team other than the one they are listed under here — QB 20, RB 32, WR 60, TE 25. 32 of the 32 teams carry at least one, so there is no clean page and no "nothing to see here" state to reach for. THIS IS NOT A DATA GAP; IT IS THE READING. A number printed under a team that did not earn it, with nothing on the row saying so, is the defect. `priorTeam` on every player is the correction, and it is never defaulted to the team the row is listed under.
  • 19 players on this chart appeared for more than one team in 2025, so the single number beside the name is a sum of two rooms rather than a count from one. 9 of them have a primary team EQUAL to the team they are listed under, so a marker that fires only when the team changed says nothing at all about them. The largest: Jakobi Meyers is listed under JAX showing 115, of which 66 was earned in that room — the printed number is 74% larger than what he did here. The split is therefore carried for all 19 of them on each team's `multiTeam`, not only for the ones a change-marker catches, and an arm at zero opportunity is carried too (4 of them have one): he was on that sheet for those weeks and saw nothing, which is an observation and not a gap. The rule that picks the primary team has three clauses — most opportunity, then most weeks, then the team code ascending — and on this artifact only the first is ever reached: no player here has two arms level on opportunity, so nothing on this file depends on the other two.
what moved, 2026-08-18 to 2026-08-258 changes

what moved, 2026-08-18 to 2026-08-25

7 days of the published 2026 chart, both endpoints present. Checked again against 2026-08-26.

The filter is a rank cut — QB, RB and TE to 2, WR to 3 — and it is the whole of it: it takes 90.9 changes a week down to 24.0, and counting one event for one event takes that to 16.7 a week (skill positions (pos_abb QB/RB/WR/TE), in-season Tuesday-to-Tuesday, 2025 asset, 16 spans from 2025-09-09 to 2025-12-30, measured 2026-08-28). Depth-1 confirmation removes none of it — it is a label, and if it filtered it would move only 4.7% of the rows. Some reverts survive both: a change that holds for a day and flips on the second is marked confirmed and reverted anyway, and a depth that caught it would suppress real reversals to do it.

0 — a name that was not in a top slot is in one

No name arrived in a top slot on the CIN chart over this span. That is a reading, not a missing feed: 0 changes of any kind on the CIN chart.

0 — the same names, in a different order on the CIN chart

No group kept its names and changed their order on the CIN chart over this span.

CIN

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measured rows sit at a different rank than the team published. The published chart is the only order the free sites can show, because they are it.

30 published12 with nothing measured to rank them by

backfield — unestablished

The shares below are measured. The classification is not, and this screen does not supply one.

Chase Brown — 71.9% of the room, earned in CIN · Samaje Perine — 23.6% of the room, earned in CIN

Both of these backs earned their 2025 opportunity in CIN.

why no band was derived

No handcuff band is established. Deriving one from the 2025 distribution was attempted and refused: across the 32 teams the RB1 share of the room's 2025 opportunity runs 38.9% to 95.7% with a largest interior gap of 7.6 pp, and 32 points drawn uniformly on that range produce a gap that large 29.3% of the time (100,000 trials). The distribution is not bimodal, so there is no trough to put a threshold in, and a round number would be a guess wearing a measurement's clothes. The shares below are measured; the verdict is not. NOTE the population: they are the 2026 room's 2025 opportunity, so a back who changed teams carries his old volume into his new room and this describes no backfield that existed in 2025.

QB3 measured · 1 unmeasured2 of 3 disagreeopportunity = carries + targets, from nflverse stats_player_week.
  • Joe FlaccoQBdrafted 2008
    published QB2by opportunity QB11 slot higher
    1.6/wk21 opportunities over 13 weeks
    the number above is 2 rooms added together: CIN 15 opportunities over 9 weeks · CLE 6 opportunities over 4 weeks15 of that total was earned in CIN
  • Joe BurrowQBdrafted 2020
    published QB1by opportunity QB21 slot lower
    1.8/wk14 opportunities over 8 weeks
  • Josh JohnsonQBdrafted 2008
    published QB3by opportunity QB3same slot
    4.0/wk12 opportunities over 3 weeks
    all of this 2025 opportunity was earned in WAS

published order only — no 2025 stat row to rank them by1

  • Sean Clifforddrafted 2023
    published QB4published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
RB5 measured · 2 unmeasured2 of 5 disagreeopportunity = carries + targets, from nflverse stats_player_week.
  • Chase BrownRBdrafted 2023
    published RB1by opportunity RB1same slot
    18.8/wk320 opportunities over 17 weeks
  • Samaje PerineRBdrafted 2017
    published RB2by opportunity RB2same slot
    7.0/wk105 opportunities over 15 weeks
  • Tahj BrooksRBdrafted 2025
    published RB3by opportunity RB3same slot
    1.5/wk18 opportunities over 12 weeks
  • Kendall MiltonRBdrafted 2024
    published RB5by opportunity RB41 slot higher
    2.0/wk2 opportunities over 1 weeks
  • Gary BrightwellRBdrafted 2021
    published RB4by opportunity RB51 slot lower
    0.0/wk0 opportunities over 2 weeks

published order only — no 2025 stat row to rank them by2

  • Jamal Haynesrookie, drafted 2026
    published RB6published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Kentrel Bullockdraft year not found — this player is in no crosswalk row
    published RB7published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
WR6 measured · 6 unmeasured2 of 6 disagreeopportunity = carries + targets, from nflverse stats_player_week.
  • Ja'Marr ChaseWRdrafted 2021
    published WR1by opportunity WR1same slot
    11.8/wk188 opportunities over 16 weeks
  • Tee HigginsWRdrafted 2020
    published WR2by opportunity WR2same slot
    6.5/wk98 opportunities over 15 weeks
  • Andrei IosivasWRdrafted 2023
    published WR3by opportunity WR3same slot
    4.1/wk61 opportunities over 15 weeks
  • Mitchell TinsleyWRdrafted 2023
    published WR5by opportunity WR41 slot higher
    3.0/wk24 opportunities over 8 weeks
  • Ke'Shawn WilliamsWRdrafted 2025
    published WR7by opportunity WR52 slots higher
    0.3/wk3 opportunities over 11 weeks
    the number above is 2 rooms added together: CIN 3 opportunities over 3 weeks · PIT 0 opportunities over 8 weeks3 of that total was earned in CIN
  • Charlie JonesWRdrafted 2023
    published WR6by opportunity WR6same slot
    0.1/wk1 opportunities over 14 weeks

published order only — no 2025 stat row to rank them by6

  • Colbie Youngrookie, drafted 2026
    published WR4published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Kendric Pryordrafted 2022
    published WR8published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Noah Thomasrookie, drafted 2026
    published WR9published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Jordan Mooredrafted 2025
    published WR10published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Xavier Johnsondrafted 2024
    published WR11published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Dohnte Meyersdrafted 2025
    published WR12published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
TE4 measured · 3 unmeasured3 of 4 disagreeopportunity = carries + targets, from nflverse stats_player_week.
  • Mike GesickiTEdrafted 2018
    published TE1by opportunity TE1same slot
    3.5/wk42 opportunities over 12 weeks
  • Tanner HudsonTEdrafted 2018
    published TE3by opportunity TE21 slot higher
    2.4/wk24 opportunities over 10 weeks
  • Drew SampleTEdrafted 2019
    published TE2by opportunity TE31 slot lower
    1.8/wk21 opportunities over 12 weeks
  • Cam GrandyTEdrafted 2024
    published TE5by opportunity TE41 slot higher
    1.0/wk2 opportunities over 2 weeks

published order only — no 2025 stat row to rank them by3

  • Erick All Jr.drafted 2024
    published TE4published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Jack Endriesrookie, drafted 2026
    published TE6published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Josh Kattusdraft year not found — this player is in no crosswalk row
    published TE7published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row