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Emeka Egbuka injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Tampa Bay Buccaneers · 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 1 full season on record, Emeka Egbuka played 17 of 17 regular-season games (100%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers room absorbs +4.09 receptions, and Kameron Johnson takes the largest single share at +0.75. 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 Emeka Egbuka sitsKameron Johnson+0.8WR 4% snapsJalen McMillan+0.6WR 7% snapsChris Godwin Jr.+0.6WR 83% snapsTez Johnson+0.6WR 36% snapsTed Hurst III+0.5WR 57% snapsCade Otton+0.2TE 94% snapsPayne Durham+0.1TE 28% snapsBauer Sharp+0.1TE 6% snapsKo Kieft+0.1TE 2% snapsBucky Irving+0.1RB 66% snapsKenny Gainwell+0.1RB 35% snapsSean Tucker+0.1RB 5% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Emeka Egbuka WR · 86% snaps4.50—OUT
Chris Godwin Jr. WR · 83% snaps3.904.51+0.61
Cade Otton TE · 94% snaps3.503.66+0.16
Bucky Irving RB · 66% snaps2.402.53+0.13
Ted Hurst III WR · 57% snaps2.002.49+0.49
Kenny Gainwell RB · 35% snaps1.902.03+0.13
Tez Johnson WR · 36% snaps1.602.20+0.60
Kameron Johnson WR · 4% snaps0.401.15+0.75
Payne Durham TE · 28% snaps0.400.55+0.15
Bauer Sharp TE · 6% snaps0.200.35+0.15
Jalen McMillan WR · 7% snaps0.200.84+0.64
Ko Kieft TE · 2% snaps0.200.35+0.15
Sean Tucker RB · 5% snaps0.200.33+0.13

Injury history

Over his 1 full season on record, Emeka Egbuka played 17 of 17 regular-season games (100%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026TB6 of 6000—
2025TB17 of 17002Hamstring, Hip

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.

Emeka Egbuka’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