Dontayvion Wicks Camp Update — August 31: Listed Second in a Six-Man Room

Dontayvion Wicks is on Philadelphia's initial 53-man roster, listed second among six receivers, directly behind DeVonta Smith, per Dave Zangaro at NBC Sports Philadelphia. Add one line from the final camp practice, where Jimmy Kempski at PhillyVoice refers to him as the projected number two receiver — a beat writer's projection, not a depth chart — and that is the week's entire Wicks file. No charted rep, no target, no quote of his own. Friday's 30 to 13 finale loss to Cincinnati was played without any starters, per Olivia Reiner and Jeff McLane at the Philadelphia Inquirer — no report says he sat, so we won't assert it, but nothing charts him playing either.

What did change is everything around him. The receivers he spent August out-repping were cut — Quez Watkins among them, "more of a practice squad guy later in his career," per Kempski. The competition came back instead: Smith reached seven-on-seven work with a toe-tap touchdown at the last camp practice and rookie Makai Lemon took first-team reps the same day and debuted in the finale, per Kempski and the Inquirer. And Hollywood Brown is on the roster, per Zangaro — a veteran who appears in none of our earlier episodes and who changes the target math we described.

For anyone arriving fresh: we said in June the numbers couldn't settle this player — a 30-catch Green Bay season set against two traded picks and a 12-and-a-half-million-dollar extension — and that only the depth chart could. The depth chart just voted again, second name on the list, but the questions we flagged last week — whether he holds first-team work once Smith is fully back, whether the red-zone looks survive — got no test in a window where no source charts first-team receiver alignment and no red-zone rep is reported for anyone. Almost no news, a roster spot, a deeper room. We'll check in again as the season arrives.

_Data via nflverse._