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With RJ Harvey on injured reserve, Jonah Coleman draws five targets: what it means for Week 9
With RJ Harvey on injured reserve, Jonah Coleman had 11 carries and 5 targets in one game since, up from 9.0 and 2.0 a game. For Week 9, he's a likely start in every scoring.
By Swindlr · · Sources & methodology
Projections and statuses below are as of Nov 3, 2026 and change until kickoff. Current outlook: Jonah Coleman
The short answer
What happened: the Broncos placed RJ Harvey on injured reserve on Oct 31, according to ESPN's NFL transactions list, and they've played one game since.
Who's affected: Jonah Coleman had 11 carries and 5 targets in one game since RJ Harvey went on injured reserve (week 8, a 28-24 win against the Chiefs): 48% of the Broncos' carries and 18% of their targets, up from 9.0 and 2.0 a game with RJ Harvey in the lineup.
What it means for Week 9: In every scoring, Jonah Coleman is a likely start in most 12-team lineups: he projects as an RB2, though not by a wide margin.
Still uncertain: one game: the next will show whether the role holds.
Opens Who should I start? with him in, on current projections: add the players you're choosing between and set your scoring.
What happened
The Broncos placed RJ Harvey on injured reserve on Oct 31, according to ESPN's NFL transactions list. He'd had 4.3 targets and 4.8 carries a game in his last 4 games, 17% of the Broncos' carries and targets.
Denver's backfield, before and after
| Player | Carries before | Carries since | Targets before | Targets since | Week 8 report | Now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J.K. Dobbins | 13.0 (50%) | 7 (30%) | 1.8 (6%) | 0 (0%) | none | active |
| Jonah Coleman | 9.0 (35%) | 11 (48%) | 2.0 (8%) | 5 (18%) | none | active |
| Broncos total | 26.0 | 23 | 27.3 | 28 |
From each week's box score, counted in the games each player played (a dash: he didn't play); in brackets, his share of the team's carries or targets in those games. Week 8 report: the NFL's game-status report for that game. Now: Sleeper's injury data, Nov 3.
Week 9 projections
| Player | PPR | Half PPR | Standard | Projected catches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonah Coleman | 14.3 · RB14 | 13.1 · RB14 | 11.9 · RB14 | 2.4 |
| J.K. Dobbins | 10.0 · RB27 | 9.2 · RB26 | 8.3 · RB24 | 1.7 |
Projected catches are PPR minus standard, as shown. The starter line is illustrative, the top 24 backs, 30 receivers and 12 tight ends: where your league's falls depends on its lineup and how its flex spots get used. See current projections for Jonah Coleman.
How the call is made: Sleeper's Week 9 projection (as of Nov 3, 10:20 a.m. ET) has Jonah Coleman at RB14 in PPR (14.3 points), RB14 in half PPR (13.1) and RB14 in standard (11.9), inside the illustrative 12-team starter line (RB24) by a modest margin: against the best of the backs outside it, a gap that size has held 68% of the time in each scoring, a lean rather than a lock.
Swindlr's injury data has RJ Harvey on injured reserve now, and Sleeper's Week 9 projection doesn't have him playing.
What could change this
- When RJ Harvey comes back, the work shifts again; injured reserve sets a minimum stay, not a return date.
Next step: Compare Jonah Coleman with your options →
Sources & methodology
Automatically generated analysis using the sources and data listed below. Not individually reviewed by a human.
- Denver Broncos transactions: Placed RB RJ Harvey on injured reserve. · ESPN NFL transactions, Oct 31, 2026 · retrieved Nov 3, 2026, 10:20 a.m. ET
- NFL game-status injury reports, 2026 · NFL injury report (nflverse) · retrieved Nov 3, 2026, 10:20 a.m. ET
Covers Oct 31–Nov 1, 2026. Data as of Nov 3, 2026, 10:20 a.m. ET.
How this was put together
The move is as ESPN's NFL transactions list reports it. Carries and targets come from each week's box score in Swindlr's data (nflverse), counted in the games each player played; the result from the NFL schedule; a game's injury status from the NFL's game-status report for that week (nflverse's copy), and a current one from Sleeper's injury data, kept apart. Projections are Sleeper's week 9 lines as of Nov 3, 10:20 a.m. ET, scored by Swindlr in PPR, half PPR and standard and ranked among players expected to play. How close a call is comes from how often a projection gap that size went the higher projection's way in 2025, on a curve fitted separately for each scoring (the calibration behind Who should I start?). The starter line is an illustrative cutoff, not a lineup rule. Written once the first game after the move was in the data.
The numbers are worked out before any sentence is written, and the text states only those numbers and the sources' facts. No one was interviewed or quoted.