No projection this week
Laken doesn't have a projection right now — either his team is on a bye, the week's slate hasn't been simulated yet, or he isn't in a position to draw usage. His game log and the usage read below are the real record either way, and this page picks him back up as soon as there's a game to simulate.
How much he's on the field
Across 19 games, Laken has been on the field for 98% of his team's snaps. That's a full-time role. Snap share at this level is the most stable input we have — it changes slowly, and it survives a bad game in a way that yardage never does. The model weighs this above efficiency for a simple reason: snap share predicts next week better than last week's yardage does.
Why there are no counting stats here
Laken plays on the offensive line, and the box score has almost nothing to say about him — no target, carry or tackle records what a guard did on a given snap. What this page can show is availability: he's taken 98% of his team's snaps across 19 games, and for a lineman that IS the story, because the position is close to all-or-nothing. We'd rather show that plainly than invent a grade we haven't earned the data to publish.
His last 5 games
Over that stretch Laken has 0 total yards. Five games is a small sample in any sport and a tiny one in football, where a team plays seventeen times a year — so recent form informs the projection without overriding the usage underneath it.
How the model reads him
Every projection here is built the same way for Laken as for a starter on a contender — simulate the game, then apportion it by role. No manual adjustments, no gut calls on who's due. The weighting behind it is proprietary and re-tuned on real outcomes; everything it produces is public and graded against the box score.
What we'd flag
Three things to carry. The season is seventeen games, so most trends here are small samples wearing a confident number. Game script rewrites usage — a team trailing throws, a team ahead runs. And injury news lands after we publish. For Laken specifically, his position produces almost no box-score data, so there is less here than on a skill player's page and we'd rather say so.