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Foster Moreau injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Houston Texans · Tight end · 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 7 full seasons on record, Foster Moreau played 104 of 117 regular-season games (89%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Houston Texans room absorbs +0.96 receptions, and Dalton Schultz takes the largest single share at +0.24. The work stays overwhelmingly inside the tight end 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 Foster Moreau sitsDalton Schultz+0.2TE 56% snapsBrevin Jordan+0.2TE 11% snapsCade Stover+0.2TE 24% snapsMarlin Klein+0.2TE 9% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Foster Moreau TE · 45% snaps1.70—OUT
Nico Collins WR · 71% snaps4.504.50+0.00
Dalton Schultz TE · 56% snaps4.404.64+0.24
Xavier Hutchinson WR · 52% snaps2.802.80+0.00
Woody Marks RB · 58% snaps2.602.60+0.00
Jaylin Noel WR · 48% snaps2.402.40+0.00
Marvin Harrison Jr. WR · 19% snaps2.302.30+0.00
Kayshon Boutte WR · 61% snaps2.202.20+0.00
David Montgomery RB · 46% snaps0.800.80+0.00
Jawhar Jordan RB · 22% snaps0.800.80+0.00
Brevin Jordan TE · 11% snaps0.600.84+0.24
Cade Stover TE · 24% snaps0.300.54+0.24
Marlin Klein TE · 9% snaps0.200.44+0.24

Injury history

Over his 7 full seasons on record, Foster Moreau played 104 of 117 regular-season games (89%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026HOU6 of 6000—
2025NO11 of 17601Knee
2024NO17 of 17000—
2023NO15 of 17201Ankle
2022LV15 of 17211Knee
2021LV17 of 17000—
2020LV16 of 16000—
2019OAK13 of 16300—

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 tight end does not play, what each position group gains:

RoomReceptions gainednt
Receivers+0.1072,1602.29
Tight ends+0.4921,0249.57
Backs-0.0451,259-0.92

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.

Foster Moreau’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