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CeeDee Lamb injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Dallas Cowboys · Wide receiver · 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 6 full seasons on record, CeeDee Lamb played 95 of 101 regular-season games (94%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Dallas Cowboys room absorbs +3.69 receptions, and Ryan Flournoy takes the largest single share at +0.85. 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 CeeDee Lamb sitsRyan Flournoy+0.8WR 74% snapsJonathan Mingo+0.8WR 19% snapsGeorge Pickens+0.6WR 85% snapsKaVontae Turpin+0.6WR 19% snapsJake Ferguson+0.1TE 67% snapsBrevyn Spann-Ford+0.1TE 39% snapsLuke Schoonmaker+0.1TE 16% snapsJavonte Williams+0.1RB 78% snapsHunter Luepke+0.1RB 14% snapsTyler Goodson+0.1RB 14% snapsEmari Demercado+0.1RB 16% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
CeeDee Lamb WR · 78% snaps7.00—OUT
George Pickens WR · 85% snaps5.606.16+0.56
Ryan Flournoy WR · 74% snaps3.604.45+0.85
Jake Ferguson TE · 67% snaps3.103.25+0.15
Javonte Williams RB · 78% snaps2.502.63+0.13
Brevyn Spann-Ford TE · 39% snaps1.201.35+0.15
Hunter Luepke RB · 14% snaps1.101.23+0.13
KaVontae Turpin WR · 19% snaps1.101.65+0.55
Tyler Goodson RB · 14% snaps0.700.83+0.13
Emari Demercado RB · 16% snaps0.600.73+0.13
Jonathan Mingo WR · 19% snaps0.501.26+0.76
Luke Schoonmaker TE · 16% snaps0.500.65+0.15

Injury history

Over his 6 full seasons on record, CeeDee Lamb played 95 of 101 regular-season games (94%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026DAL6 of 6000—
2025DAL14 of 17330Ankle
2024DAL15 of 17211Back, Shoulder
2023DAL17 of 17000—
2022DAL17 of 17002Groin, Hip
2021DAL16 of 17102Ankle, Concussion
2020DAL16 of 16000—

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.

CeeDee Lamb’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