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Josh Cuevas injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Baltimore Ravens · 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.

Josh Cuevas has played 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Baltimore Ravens room absorbs +0.91 receptions, and Mark Andrews takes the largest single share at +0.24. 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 Josh Cuevas sitsMark Andrews+0.2TE 65% snapsMatthew Hibner+0.2TE 45% snapsNick Vannett+0.2TE 32% snapsDurham Smythe+0.2TE 45% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Josh Cuevas TE · 25% snaps1.10—OUT
Zay Flowers WR · 69% snaps5.705.70+0.00
Mark Andrews TE · 65% snaps3.603.84+0.24
Ja'Kobi Lane WR · 54% snaps2.902.90+0.00
Rashod Bateman WR · 68% snaps2.702.70+0.00
Justice Hill RB · 41% snaps1.801.80+0.00
Derrick Henry RB · 59% snaps1.501.50+0.00
Devontez Walker WR · 50% snaps1.401.40+0.00
Elijah Sarratt WR · 36% snaps1.101.10+0.00
Matthew Hibner TE · 45% snaps0.801.04+0.24
Nick Vannett TE · 32% snaps0.300.54+0.24
Durham Smythe TE · 45% snaps0.100.29+0.19

Injury history

Josh Cuevas has played 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026BAL6 of 6000—

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.

Josh Cuevas’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