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Brenton Strange injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Jacksonville Jaguars · Tight end · status this week: on bye in week 7, no game this week

Checked Oct 21, 2026.

Over his 3 full seasons on record, Brenton Strange played 43 of 51 regular-season games (84%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

No absence modeled for week 7. The Jacksonville Jaguars are on their bye in week 7, so there is no game for him to miss and no absence to model this week. This page showed who gained while his absence was modeled earlier this season; that table returns whenever the model covers him again. His status and injury history below are current.

Injury history

Over his 3 full seasons on record, Brenton Strange played 43 of 51 regular-season games (84%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026JAX6 of 6000—
2025JAX12 of 17511Hip
2024JAX17 of 17000—
2023JAX14 of 17313Foot

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.

Brenton Strange’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