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KC 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 KC chart over this span. That is a reading, not a missing feed: 0 changes of any kind on the KC chart.

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

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

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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.

31 published16 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.

Kenneth Walker III — 64.3% of the room, earned in SEA · Brashard Smith — 19.8% of the room, earned in KC

Not all of the 2025 opportunity these two backs carry was earned in KC — the room each of them earned it in is named beside his share.

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 unmeasured3 of 3 disagreeopportunity = carries + targets, from nflverse stats_player_week.
  • Justin FieldsQBdrafted 2021
    published QB2by opportunity QB11 slot higher
    8.0/wk72 opportunities over 9 weeks
    all of this 2025 opportunity was earned in NYJ
  • Patrick MahomesQBdrafted 2017
    published QB1by opportunity QB21 slot lower
    4.6/wk65 opportunities over 14 weeks
  • Chris OladokunQBdrafted 2022
    published QB4by opportunity QB31 slot higher
    1.7/wk5 opportunities over 3 weeks

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

  • Garrett Nussmeierrookie, drafted 2026
    published QB3published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
RB3 measured · 3 unmeasured2 of 3 disagreeopportunity = carries + targets, from nflverse stats_player_week.
  • Kenneth Walker IIIRBdrafted 2022
    published RB1by opportunity RB1same slot
    15.1/wk257 opportunities over 17 weeks
    all of this 2025 opportunity was earned in SEA
  • Brashard SmithRBdrafted 2025
    published RB4by opportunity RB22 slots higher
    4.6/wk79 opportunities over 17 weeks
  • Emari DemercadoRBdrafted 2023
    published RB2by opportunity RB31 slot lower
    5.3/wk64 opportunities over 12 weeks
    all of this 2025 opportunity was earned in ARI

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

  • Emmett Johnsonrookie, drafted 2026
    published RB3published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Jaydn Ottrookie, drafted 2026
    published RB5published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • EJ Smithrookie, drafted 2026
    published RB6published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
WR6 measured · 8 unmeasured4 of 6 disagreeopportunity = carries + targets, from nflverse stats_player_week.
  • Xavier WorthyWRdrafted 2024
    published WR2by opportunity WR11 slot higher
    6.0/wk84 opportunities over 14 weeks
  • Rashee RiceWRdrafted 2023
    published WR1by opportunity WR21 slot lower
    10.4/wk83 opportunities over 8 weeks
  • Tyquan ThorntonWRdrafted 2022
    published WR3by opportunity WR3same slot
    3.1/wk37 opportunities over 12 weeks
  • Jalen RoyalsWRdrafted 2025
    published WR4by opportunity WR4same slot
    1.5/wk3 opportunities over 2 weeks
  • Nikko RemigioWRdrafted 2023
    published WR7by opportunity WR52 slots higher
    0.1/wk2 opportunities over 14 weeks
  • Jason BrownleeWRdrafted 2023
    published WR8by opportunity WR62 slots higher
    0.3/wk1 opportunities over 3 weeks

published order only — no 2025 stat row to rank them by8

  • Cyrus Allenrookie, drafted 2026
    published WR5published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Andrew Armstrongdrafted 2025
    published WR6published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Jimmy Holidaydraft year not found — this player is in no crosswalk row
    published WR9published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Omari Evansdraft year not found — this player is in no crosswalk row
    published WR10published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Jacob De Jesusdraft year not found — this player is in no crosswalk row
    published WR11published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Xavier Loyddraft year not found — this player is in no crosswalk row
    published WR12published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • no name on either source · espn 5082601draft year not found — this player is in no crosswalk row
    published WR13published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Jeff Caldwellrookie, drafted 2026
    published WR14published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
TE3 measured · 4 unmeasured0 of 3 disagreeopportunity = carries + targets, from nflverse stats_player_week.
  • Travis KelceTEdrafted 2013
    published TE1by opportunity TE1same slot
    6.4/wk109 opportunities over 17 weeks
  • Noah GrayTEdrafted 2021
    published TE2by opportunity TE2same slot
    2.6/wk37 opportunities over 14 weeks
  • Jared WileyTEdrafted 2024
    published TE3by opportunity TE3same slot
    0.5/wk1 opportunities over 2 weeks

published order only — no 2025 stat row to rank them by4

  • Jake Briningstooldrafted 2025
    published TE4published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Tre Watsondraft year not found — this player is in no crosswalk row
    published TE5published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • Mason Plinedrafted 2024
    published TE6published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row
  • John Michael Gyllenborgrookie, drafted 2026
    published TE7published order only — no measured opportunity to rank him bynot matched to a 2025 stat row