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George Pickens injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out
Dallas Cowboys · Wide receiver · status this week: not on the week 7 injury report (week 7 report, captured Wed 21 Oct, 6:15am)
Over his 4 full seasons on record, George Pickens played 65 of 68 regular-season games (96%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.
The Dallas Cowboys room absorbs +0.95 receptions, and CeeDee Lamb 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.
Every player in the room
| Player | Catches now | If he sits | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Pickens WR · 85% snaps | 5.70 | — | OUT |
| CeeDee Lamb WR · 78% snaps | 7.00 | 7.24 | +0.24 |
| Ryan Flournoy WR · 74% snaps | 3.60 | 3.83 | +0.23 |
| Jake Ferguson TE · 67% snaps | 3.10 | 3.10 | +0.00 |
| Javonte Williams RB · 78% snaps | 2.50 | 2.50 | +0.00 |
| Brevyn Spann-Ford TE · 39% snaps | 1.20 | 1.20 | +0.00 |
| Hunter Luepke RB · 14% snaps | 1.10 | 1.10 | +0.00 |
| KaVontae Turpin WR · 19% snaps | 1.10 | 1.34 | +0.24 |
| Tyler Goodson RB · 14% snaps | 0.70 | 0.70 | +0.00 |
| Emari Demercado RB · 16% snaps | 0.60 | 0.60 | +0.00 |
| Jonathan Mingo WR · 19% snaps | 0.60 | 0.84 | +0.24 |
Injury history
Over his 4 full seasons on record, George Pickens played 65 of 68 regular-season games (96%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.
| Season | Team | Played | Missed | Listed out | Questionable | Injuries listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DAL | 6 of 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | DAL | 17 of 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | PIT | 14 of 17 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Hamstring |
| 2023 | PIT | 17 of 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | PIT | 17 of 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
| Room | Receptions gained | n | t |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receivers | +0.584 | 1,537 | 11.16 |
| Tight ends | +0.175 | 1,080 | 3.33 |
| Backs | +0.113 | 1,011 | 2.00 |
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.
George Pickens’s full stats and usageSnap share, target share, game log and this week’s projection