Ben Powers injury status OL · DEN · Denver Broncos
Will Ben Powers play? Fantasy outlook
Rules-based guide, not a validated prediction and not betting advice. Lineup call: Bench or hold if listed Out or Doubtful, or chance of missing at least 75%; Have a backup ready at 50% to 75%; otherwise Start with caution if chance of missing is 25% or more, he did not practice or was limited, he has the returning-from-injury flag, or his typical (median) fantasy points rank below the top 50% of players at his position with a range this update; Bench or hold if that rank is in the bottom 25% and he is not a QB; Start otherwise. Next man up is named when chance of missing is 25% or more. Ranges assume he plays. Every sentence is filled from the sourced fields elsewhere on this page.
Lineup call
Not a typical fantasy start · Week 7 game (Oct 25)
Ben Powers plays OL, which standard fantasy leagues do not score. 2% chance of missing his Week 7 game (Oct 25). See Team contribution range below for his snap range.
Team impact
If he sits, the Denver Broncos replace a starter who plays 100% of snaps; his next man up Alex Palczewski has 865 career regular-season snaps vs his 5,470. Role impact 2.2 (Medium).
We have no return timeline or medical detail beyond the listed report.
Games without a snap while on the Denver Broncos roster: none (of 6 team games).
How long could he be out?
Does not apply yet: he is on the Week 6 report with a practice status only (Full practice) and no game status so far. Past listings without a game status are not a like-for-like comparison, so we wait for one.
Ben Powers
Practice trend: nflverse has one end-of-week practice status per player-week, not daily Wed/Thu/Fri reports, so this compares last game week's final status with this week's; we have not tested it on midweek reports. 3,801 past cases in 2022–2025 with this sequence (regular players with at least 20% snap share; 7,341 more in 2014–2021). It is context only: the chance of missing above comes from the frozen model. From our held-out research on 2014–2025 nflverse data.
If he sits, the Denver Broncos replace a starter who plays 100% of offense snaps; his backup Alex Palczewski has played 5% over the same games.
Chance of missing: Frozen availability model (2026 blind test), prediction log update Oct 16, 2026 04:22 PM ET. Status: nflverse injury report data (CC-BY-4.0), retrieved Oct 16, 2026 04:22 PM ET. Usage impact: Share: nflverse player stats (CC-BY-4.0), last 3 team games, retrieved Oct 16, 2026 04:23 PM ET; tiers fixed from 2017-2021 history (High at least 3.7, Medium at least 0.7 points). Role impact: Snaps: nflverse snap counts (CC-BY-4.0), last 3 team games, retrieved Oct 16, 2026 04:23 PM ET; starter = top 2026 season snap share in his position group (no 2026 depth chart captured); backup experience = career regular-season snaps in nflverse snap counts; tiers fixed from 2017-2021 history (High at least 3.7, Medium at least 0.7 points).
Impact scores are small points on a fixed scale: his share of team usage (or role weight) times his chance of missing. High means the top 5% of 2017–2021 player-seasons, Medium the top 20%. The bold High badge appears only when a score is High and his chance of missing is at least 25%: 32 of 167 listed players this update.
OL
DEN · Denver Broncos
2%chance of missing Week 7 game (Oct 25)
Week 6 report: Full practice
Practice trend (end-of-week reports): not on the report in Week 5 → Full in Week 6; similar players missed 8% of games (2022–25).
Usage impact ⓘ— Not a key role
Role impact ⓘ2.2 · Medium
How the estimate changed
Chance of missing across 19 updates, Oct 15, 2026 06:15 AM ET to Oct 16, 2026 04:22 PM ET.
Start 8%low 2% · high 8%Now 2%
Team contribution range: Week 7 game (Oct 25)
Most weeks, Ben Powers adds between 46 and 74 offensive snaps. The projected middle is about 62.
How to read it ⓘA wide curve means a boom-or-bust week; a narrow one means a steadier floor.
80% range: low = 10th percentile, projected = the middle outcome (median, dotted line), high = 90th percentile; a solid dot marks the actual result once the game is graded. The curve is drawn through these three points for illustration only; its shape is not a modeled distribution. The range assumes the player plays (fit on played games only). Sources: frozen team-contribution unit models (fit on 2014–2025, beat a trailing 8-game baseline on held-out seasons). Prediction log update Oct 16, 2026 04:22 PM ET.
If he plays
nflverse has no blocking stats, so this counts offensive snaps played, not blocks.
Teammates who gain if he sits
No usage-shift scenario this update. Usage-shift scenarios cover receivers, tight ends and running backs only; offensive-line and defensive snaps are not redistributed. See Next man up below for his backup.
Next man up
Snaps: nflverse snap counts (CC-BY-4.0), last 3 team games, retrieved Oct 16, 2026 04:23 PM ET; starter = top 2026 season snap share in his position group (no 2026 depth chart captured); backup experience = career regular-season snaps in nflverse snap counts; tiers fixed from 2017-2021 history (High at least 3.7, Medium at least 0.7 points).
Alex Palczewski (OL): 5% of snaps (average of the last 3 team games) and 865 career snaps, versus Ben Powers at 100% over the same 3 games and 5,470 career snaps. That drop-off drives the role-impact score of 2.2 (Medium).
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Page built Oct 16, 2026 04:59 PM ET from prediction log update Oct 16, 2026 04:22 PM ET; injury report retrieved Oct 16, 2026 04:22 PM ET.