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DJ Moore injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Buffalo Bills · Wide receiver · status this week: on bye in week 7 · last report: QUESTIONABLE · Shoulder (week 7 report, captured Wed 21 Oct, 6:15am)

Checked Oct 21, 2026.

Over his 8 full seasons on record, DJ Moore played 131 of 133 regular-season games (98%), and 4 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

No absence modeled for week 7. The Buffalo Bills 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 8 full seasons on record, DJ Moore played 131 of 133 regular-season games (98%), and 4 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026BUF4 of 6203Shoulder
2025CHI17 of 17001Illness
2024CHI17 of 17000—
2023CHI17 of 17000—
2022CAR17 of 17000—
2021CAR17 of 17000—
2020CAR15 of 16100—
2019CAR15 of 16100—
2018CAR16 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.

DJ Moore’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