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Adonai Mitchell injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

New York Jets · Wide receiver · status this week: QUESTIONABLE (ESPN)

Checked Oct 21, 2026.

Over his 2 full seasons on record, Adonai Mitchell played 33 of 34 regular-season games (97%), and 2 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The New York Jets room absorbs +1.71 receptions, and Kenyon Sadiq takes the largest single share at +0.16. The work stays overwhelmingly inside the wide receiver room.

Where the work goes

Change in projected receptions for every other player in the offense. The bars are small on purpose — a vacated role is shared out, and any tool showing one replacement absorbing a whole target load is telling you something the data does not support.

Receptions gained if Adonai Mitchell sitsKenyon Sadiq+0.2TE 43% snapsJeremy Ruckert+0.2TE 35% snapsMason Taylor+0.1TE 53% snapsJelani Woods+0.1TE 32% snapsSterling Shepard+0.1WR 49% snapsJamaal Pritchett+0.1WR 0% snapsArian Smith+0.1WR 1% snapsBreece Hall+0.1RB 56% snapsBraelon Allen+0.1RB 70% snapsIsaiah Davis+0.1RB 11% snapsKene Nwangwu+0.1RB 0% snapsIsaiah Williams+0.1WR 68% snapsGarrett Wilson+0.1WR 95% snapsOmar Cooper Jr.+0.0WR 82% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Adonai Mitchell WR · 82% snaps2.50—OUT
Garrett Wilson WR · 95% snaps5.505.56+0.06
Omar Cooper Jr. WR · 82% snaps4.204.21+0.01
Mason Taylor TE · 53% snaps2.602.75+0.15
Breece Hall RB · 56% snaps2.502.63+0.13
Kenyon Sadiq TE · 43% snaps2.002.16+0.16
Isaiah Williams WR · 68% snaps1.901.97+0.07
Braelon Allen RB · 70% snaps1.801.93+0.13
Sterling Shepard WR · 49% snaps1.401.54+0.14
Tim Patrick WR · 81% snaps1.401.41+0.01
Jeremy Ruckert TE · 35% snaps1.101.26+0.16
Jelani Woods TE · 32% snaps0.700.85+0.15
Isaiah Davis RB · 11% snaps0.500.63+0.13
Jamaal Pritchett WR · 0% snaps0.500.64+0.14
Arian Smith WR · 1% snaps0.200.34+0.14
Kene Nwangwu RB · 0% snaps0.200.33+0.13
Malik McClain WR · 11% snaps0.100.10+0.00

Injury history

Over his 2 full seasons on record, Adonai Mitchell played 33 of 34 regular-season games (97%), and 2 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026NYJ2 of 6431Finger
2025IND16 of 17100—
2024IND17 of 17000—

Regular season only. Games played counts games with at least one offensive snap; designations are from the official weekly injury report, which does not list players on injured reserve, so a long absence shows as missed games rather than as weeks listed out.

What the data says happens

Measured across every regular-season game from 2018 onward, each beneficiary compared against his own trailing four-game form and net of what the same players do in weeks the room’s number one actually plays.

When a team’s number-one wide receiver does not play, what each position group gains:

RoomReceptions gainednt
Receivers+0.5841,53711.16
Tight ends+0.1751,0803.33
Backs+0.1131,0112.00

The room total is predictable. Which player takes it is not. Every candidate predictor of who gains — pecking order, snap share, route depth, trailing targets — correlates at roughly r = 0.02. In any single week one player usually takes about 60% of what was vacated; it is simply not predictably the same one.

Adonai Mitchell’s full stats and usageSnap share, target share, game log and this week’s projection

Cascade effects 2018–2026, paired within player, net of control · projections as-of-week with no lookahead · 2026 week 7