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Harold Fannin Jr. injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Cleveland Browns · 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 1 full season on record, Harold Fannin Jr. played 16 of 17 regular-season games (94%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Cleveland Browns room absorbs +1.97 receptions, and Blake Whiteheart takes the largest single share at +0.88. 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 Harold Fannin Jr. sitsBlake Whiteheart+0.9TE 33% snapsCarsen Ryan+0.8TE 2% snapsDenzel Boston+0.1WR 92% snapsJerry Jeudy+0.1WR 58% snapsIsaiah Bond+0.1WR 22% snapsMalachi Corley+0.1WR 14% snapsKC Concepcion+0.1WR 68% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Harold Fannin Jr. TE · 89% snaps3.70—OUT
Denzel Boston WR · 92% snaps3.403.47+0.07
KC Concepcion WR · 68% snaps3.303.36+0.06
Quinshon Judkins RB · 59% snaps2.702.70+0.00
Jerry Jeudy WR · 58% snaps2.202.27+0.07
Raheim Sanders RB · 31% snaps1.601.60+0.00
Isaiah Bond WR · 22% snaps1.301.37+0.07
Jaleel McLaughlin RB · 21% snaps1.101.10+0.00
Audric Estimé RB · 30% snaps1.001.00+0.00
Blake Whiteheart TE · 33% snaps0.401.28+0.88
Malachi Corley WR · 14% snaps0.300.37+0.07
Carsen Ryan TE · 2% snaps0.100.85+0.75

Injury history

Over his 1 full season on record, Harold Fannin Jr. played 16 of 17 regular-season games (94%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026CLE6 of 6000—
2025CLE16 of 17112Groin, Hamstring

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.

Harold Fannin Jr.’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