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Davante Adams injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Los Angeles Rams · Wide receiver · status this week: ON RESERVE / IR (ESPN)

Checked Oct 21, 2026.

Over his 10 full seasons on record, Davante Adams played 149 of 165 regular-season games (90%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Los Angeles Rams room absorbs +1.43 receptions, and Puka Nacua takes the largest single share at +0.24. 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 Davante Adams sitsPuka Nacua+0.2WR 88% snapsTutu Atwell+0.2WR 27% snapsXavier Smith+0.2WR 43% snapsJordan Whittington+0.2WR 25% snapsAlex Bachman+0.2WR 0% snapsKonata Mumpfield+0.2WR 45% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Davante Adams WR · 78% snaps4.80—OUT
Puka Nacua WR · 88% snaps8.308.54+0.24
Kyren Williams RB · 71% snaps4.304.30+0.00
Tyler Higbee TE · 62% snaps3.503.50+0.00
Colby Parkinson TE · 60% snaps2.402.40+0.00
Terrance Ferguson TE · 42% snaps1.601.60+0.00
Blake Corum RB · 29% snaps1.501.50+0.00
Konata Mumpfield WR · 45% snaps1.401.63+0.23
Davis Allen TE · 43% snaps1.201.20+0.00
Tutu Atwell WR · 27% snaps0.901.14+0.24
Max Klare TE · 1% snaps0.500.50+0.00
Xavier Smith WR · 43% snaps0.400.64+0.24
Jordan Whittington WR · 25% snaps0.300.54+0.24
Alex Bachman WR · 0% snaps0.100.34+0.24

Injury history

Over his 10 full seasons on record, Davante Adams played 149 of 165 regular-season games (90%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026LA6 of 6000—
2025LA14 of 17304Hamstring, Knee, Oblique
2024NYJ14 of 17332Hamstring, Hip, Wrist
2023LV17 of 17002Illness, Shoulder
2022LV17 of 17002Abdomen, Illness
2021GB16 of 17100—
2020GB14 of 16201Hamstring
2019GB12 of 16431Toe
2018GB15 of 16103Calf, Knee, Shoulder
2017GB14 of 16221Concussion
2016GB16 of 16001Concussion

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.

Davante Adams’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