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Jaxon Smith-Njigba injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Seattle Seahawks · 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 3 full seasons on record, Jaxon Smith-Njigba played 51 of 51 regular-season games (100%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Seattle Seahawks room absorbs +4.34 receptions, and Tory Horton takes the largest single share at +0.82. 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 Jaxon Smith-Njigba sitsTory Horton+0.8WR 27% snapsVelus Jones Jr.+0.8WR 7% snapsIrvin Charles+0.6WR 0% snapsCooper Kupp+0.6WR 67% snapsRashid Shaheed+0.6WR 51% snapsElijah Arroyo+0.2TE 24% snapsAJ Barner+0.1TE 90% snapsEric Saubert+0.1TE 27% snapsGeorge Holani+0.1RB 40% snapsEmanuel Wilson+0.1RB 46% snapsBrady Russell+0.1RB 19% snapsJadarian Price+0.1RB 31% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR · 84% snaps7.40—OUT
Cooper Kupp WR · 67% snaps3.203.81+0.61
AJ Barner TE · 90% snaps3.003.15+0.15
Rashid Shaheed WR · 51% snaps2.603.15+0.55
George Holani RB · 40% snaps1.701.83+0.13
Emanuel Wilson RB · 46% snaps1.101.23+0.13
Tory Horton WR · 27% snaps1.101.92+0.82
Irvin Charles WR · 0% snaps0.901.54+0.64
Jadarian Price RB · 31% snaps0.901.02+0.12
Eric Saubert TE · 27% snaps0.700.85+0.15
Elijah Arroyo TE · 24% snaps0.400.56+0.16
Brady Russell RB · 19% snaps0.300.43+0.13
Velus Jones Jr. WR · 7% snaps0.301.05+0.75

Injury history

Over his 3 full seasons on record, Jaxon Smith-Njigba played 51 of 51 regular-season games (100%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026SEA6 of 6000—
2025SEA17 of 17001Illness
2024SEA17 of 17000—
2023SEA17 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.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba’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