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Jahan Dotson injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Atlanta Falcons · 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 4 full seasons on record, Jahan Dotson played 63 of 68 regular-season games (93%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Atlanta Falcons room absorbs +0.96 receptions, and Drake London 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.

Receptions gained if Jahan Dotson sitsDrake London+0.2WR 88% snapsZachariah Branch+0.2WR 23% snapsOlamide Zaccheaus+0.2WR 40% snapsChris Blair+0.2WR 23% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Jahan Dotson WR · 71% snaps2.10—OUT
Drake London WR · 88% snaps5.505.74+0.24
Kyle Pitts TE · 59% snaps3.103.10+0.00
Bijan Robinson RB · 68% snaps2.602.60+0.00
Zachariah Branch WR · 23% snaps1.601.84+0.24
Austin Hooper TE · 24% snaps1.101.10+0.00
Olamide Zaccheaus WR · 40% snaps1.001.24+0.24
Brian Robinson RB · 31% snaps0.800.80+0.00
Charlie Woerner TE · 53% snaps0.600.60+0.00
Chris Blair WR · 23% snaps0.300.54+0.24

Injury history

Over his 4 full seasons on record, Jahan Dotson played 63 of 68 regular-season games (93%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026ATL6 of 6000—
2025PHI17 of 17000—
2024PHI17 of 17000—
2023WAS17 of 17000—
2022WAS12 of 17541Hamstring

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.

Jahan Dotson’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