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Ja'Marr Chase injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Cincinnati Bengals · 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 5 full seasons on record, Ja'Marr Chase played 78 of 84 regular-season games (93%), and 5 of 5 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Cincinnati Bengals room absorbs +4.49 receptions, and Dohnte Meyers takes the largest single share at +0.80. 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 Ja'Marr Chase sitsDohnte Meyers+0.8WR 48% snapsAndrei Iosivas+0.7WR 53% snapsColbie Young+0.6WR 10% snapsTee Higgins+0.6WR 78% snapsMitchell Tinsley+0.5WR 36% snapsKe'Shawn Williams+0.2WR 0% snapsMike Gesicki+0.1TE 48% snapsTanner Hudson+0.1TE 31% snapsErick All+0.1TE 33% snapsDrew Sample+0.1TE 47% snapsJack Endries+0.1TE 2% snapsSamaje Perine+0.1RB 0% snapsChase Brown+0.1RB 0% snapsTahj Brooks+0.1RB 0% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Ja'Marr Chase WR · 74% snaps6.30—OUT
Tee Higgins WR · 78% snaps4.404.98+0.58
Chase Brown RB · 0% snaps3.904.02+0.12
Dohnte Meyers WR · 48% snaps2.303.10+0.80
Mike Gesicki TE · 48% snaps1.902.04+0.14
Tanner Hudson TE · 31% snaps1.701.84+0.14
Andrei Iosivas WR · 53% snaps1.201.92+0.72
Erick All TE · 33% snaps1.201.34+0.14
Samaje Perine RB · 0% snaps1.201.33+0.13
Colbie Young WR · 10% snaps0.801.41+0.61
Drew Sample TE · 47% snaps0.800.94+0.14
Mitchell Tinsley WR · 36% snaps0.801.29+0.49
Jack Endries TE · 2% snaps0.600.74+0.14
Tahj Brooks RB · 0% snaps0.200.32+0.12
Ke'Shawn Williams WR · 0% snaps0.100.32+0.22

Injury history

Over his 5 full seasons on record, Ja'Marr Chase played 78 of 84 regular-season games (93%), and 5 of 5 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026CIN5 of 5001Concussion
2025CIN16 of 17101Illness
2024CIN17 of 17001—
2023CIN16 of 17112Shoulder, Back
2022CIN12 of 16432Hip
2021CIN17 of 17000—

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.

Ja'Marr Chase’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