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AJ Barner injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Seattle Seahawks · Tight end · status this week: not on the week 7 injury report (week 7 report, captured Wed 21 Oct, 6:15am)

Checked Oct 21, 2026.

Over his 2 full seasons on record, AJ Barner played 34 of 34 regular-season games (100%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Seattle Seahawks room absorbs +2.22 receptions, and Elijah Arroyo takes the largest single share at +0.75. The work stays overwhelmingly inside the tight end 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 AJ Barner sitsElijah Arroyo+0.8TE 24% snapsEric Saubert+0.7TE 27% snapsNick Kallerup+0.4TE 16% snapsJaxon Smith-Njigba+0.1WR 84% snapsCooper Kupp+0.1WR 67% snapsRashid Shaheed+0.1WR 51% snapsTory Horton+0.1WR 27% snapsIrvin Charles+0.1WR 0% snapsVelus Jones Jr.+0.1WR 7% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
AJ Barner TE · 90% snaps3.00—OUT
Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR · 84% snaps7.407.47+0.07
Cooper Kupp WR · 67% snaps3.203.27+0.07
Rashid Shaheed WR · 51% snaps2.602.67+0.07
George Holani RB · 40% snaps1.701.70+0.00
Emanuel Wilson RB · 46% snaps1.101.10+0.00
Tory Horton WR · 27% snaps1.101.17+0.07
Irvin Charles WR · 0% snaps0.900.97+0.07
Jadarian Price RB · 31% snaps0.900.90+0.00
Eric Saubert TE · 27% snaps0.701.36+0.66
Elijah Arroyo TE · 24% snaps0.301.05+0.75
Velus Jones Jr. WR · 7% snaps0.300.37+0.07
Nick Kallerup TE · 16% snaps0.100.49+0.39

Injury history

Over his 2 full seasons on record, AJ Barner played 34 of 34 regular-season games (100%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026SEA6 of 6000—
2025SEA17 of 17001Calf
2024SEA17 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 tight end does not play, what each position group gains:

RoomReceptions gainednt
Receivers+0.1072,1602.29
Tight ends+0.4921,0249.57
Backs-0.0451,259-0.92

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.

AJ Barner’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