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Cade Otton injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out
Tampa Bay Buccaneers · Tight end · status this week: not on the week 7 injury report (week 7 report, captured Wed 21 Oct, 6:15am)
Over his 4 full seasons on record, Cade Otton played 63 of 68 regular-season games (93%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers room absorbs +2.68 receptions, and Payne Durham takes the largest single share at +0.76. 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.
Every player in the room
| Player | Catches now | If he sits | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cade Otton TE · 94% snaps | 3.50 | — | OUT |
| Emeka Egbuka WR · 86% snaps | 4.50 | 4.57 | +0.07 |
| Chris Godwin Jr. WR · 83% snaps | 3.90 | 3.97 | +0.07 |
| Bucky Irving RB · 66% snaps | 2.40 | 2.40 | +0.00 |
| Ted Hurst III WR · 57% snaps | 2.00 | 2.07 | +0.07 |
| Kenny Gainwell RB · 35% snaps | 1.90 | 1.90 | +0.00 |
| Tez Johnson WR · 36% snaps | 1.60 | 1.67 | +0.07 |
| Kameron Johnson WR · 4% snaps | 0.40 | 0.47 | +0.07 |
| Payne Durham TE · 28% snaps | 0.40 | 1.16 | +0.76 |
| Bauer Sharp TE · 6% snaps | 0.20 | 0.95 | +0.75 |
| Jalen McMillan WR · 7% snaps | 0.20 | 0.27 | +0.07 |
| Ko Kieft TE · 2% snaps | 0.20 | 0.95 | +0.75 |
Injury history
Over his 4 full seasons on record, Cade Otton played 63 of 68 regular-season games (93%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.
| Season | Team | Played | Missed | Listed out | Questionable | Injuries listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TB | 6 of 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | TB | 16 of 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Knee |
| 2024 | TB | 14 of 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | Knee |
| 2023 | TB | 17 of 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | TB | 16 of 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
| Room | Receptions gained | n | t |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receivers | +0.107 | 2,160 | 2.29 |
| Tight ends | +0.492 | 1,024 | 9.57 |
| Backs | -0.045 | 1,259 | -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.
Cade Otton’s full stats and usageSnap share, target share, game log and this week’s projection