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Jalen Nailor injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Las Vegas Raiders · 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, Jalen Nailor played 45 of 68 regular-season games (66%), and 5 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

No absence modeled for week 7. He is projected to play in week 7, and this week’s absence model covers only each room’s top two wide receivers by usage with at least 0.8 projected catches. He is not one of them this week, so there is no “if he sits” to show. This page showed who gained while his absence was modeled earlier this season; that table returns whenever the model covers him again. His status and injury history below are current.

Injury history

Over his 4 full seasons on record, Jalen Nailor played 45 of 68 regular-season games (66%), and 5 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026LV5 of 6110Concussion
2025MIN17 of 17000—
2024MIN17 of 17000—
2023MIN5 of 171243Concussion, Hamstring
2022MIN6 of 171102Hamstring, Illness

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.

Jalen Nailor’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