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DeVonta Smith injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Philadelphia Eagles · 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 5 full seasons on record, DeVonta Smith played 80 of 85 regular-season games (94%), and 4 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Philadelphia Eagles room absorbs +3.09 receptions, and Elijah Moore takes the largest single share at +0.51. 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 DeVonta Smith sitsElijah Moore+0.5WR 15% snapsMarquise Brown+0.4WR 22% snapsBritain Covey+0.4WR 0% snapsMakai Lemon+0.4WR 74% snapsDontayvion Wicks+0.2WR 78% snapsDallas Goedert+0.1TE 58% snapsZach Ertz+0.1TE 23% snapsJohnny Mundt+0.1TE 52% snapsE.J. Jenkins+0.1TE 21% snapsDameon Pierce+0.1RB 86% snapsSaquon Barkley+0.1RB 32% snapsWill Shipley+0.1RB 36% snapsTank Bigsby+0.1RB 29% snapsCarson Steele+0.1RB 5% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
DeVonta Smith WR · 85% snaps4.90—OUT
Dallas Goedert TE · 58% snaps3.803.95+0.15
Makai Lemon WR · 74% snaps3.303.66+0.36
Dontayvion Wicks WR · 78% snaps3.203.45+0.25
Dameon Pierce RB · 86% snaps2.903.03+0.13
Darius Cooper WR · 57% snaps2.001.95-0.05
Saquon Barkley RB · 32% snaps1.601.73+0.13
Marquise Brown WR · 22% snaps1.501.89+0.39
Zach Ertz TE · 23% snaps1.301.45+0.15
Will Shipley RB · 36% snaps1.101.23+0.13
Johnny Mundt TE · 52% snaps0.901.05+0.15
Carson Steele RB · 5% snaps0.700.82+0.12
Tank Bigsby RB · 29% snaps0.600.73+0.13
Britain Covey WR · 0% snaps0.200.59+0.39
E.J. Jenkins TE · 21% snaps0.100.25+0.15
Elijah Moore WR · 15% snaps0.100.61+0.51

Injury history

Over his 5 full seasons on record, DeVonta Smith played 80 of 85 regular-season games (94%), and 4 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026PHI4 of 6220Hamstring
2025PHI17 of 17000—
2024PHI13 of 17421Hamstring, Concussion, Wrist
2023PHI16 of 17110Ankle
2022PHI17 of 17000—
2021PHI17 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 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.

DeVonta Smith’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