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Josh Downs injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out
Indianapolis Colts · Wide receiver · status this week: not on the week 7 injury report (week 7 report, captured Wed 21 Oct, 6:15am)
Over his 3 full seasons on record, Josh Downs played 47 of 51 regular-season games (92%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.
The Indianapolis Colts room absorbs +1.44 receptions, and Keenan Allen 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.
Every player in the room
| Player | Catches now | If he sits | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Downs WR · 80% snaps | 4.20 | — | OUT |
| Tyler Warren TE · 90% snaps | 5.20 | 5.20 | +0.00 |
| Keenan Allen WR · 60% snaps | 4.60 | 4.84 | +0.24 |
| Laquon Treadwell WR · 82% snaps | 2.40 | 2.64 | +0.24 |
| Jonathan Taylor RB · 80% snaps | 2.30 | 2.30 | +0.00 |
| Alec Pierce WR · 26% snaps | 1.90 | 2.14 | +0.24 |
| Will Mallory TE · 52% snaps | 1.90 | 1.90 | +0.00 |
| Ashton Dulin WR · 35% snaps | 1.10 | 1.34 | +0.24 |
| Mo Alie-Cox TE · 40% snaps | 1.10 | 1.10 | +0.00 |
| Deion Burks WR · 14% snaps | 0.80 | 1.04 | +0.24 |
| Seth McGowan RB · 20% snaps | 0.60 | 0.60 | +0.00 |
| Anthony Gould WR · 1% snaps | 0.20 | 0.44 | +0.24 |
| Nick Westbrook-Ikhine WR · 9% snaps | 0.10 | 0.10 | +0.00 |
Injury history
Over his 3 full seasons on record, Josh Downs played 47 of 51 regular-season games (92%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.
| Season | Team | Played | Missed | Listed out | Questionable | Injuries listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | IND | 6 of 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | IND | 16 of 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Concussion |
| 2024 | IND | 14 of 17 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Ankle, Shoulder, Toe |
| 2023 | IND | 17 of 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Knee |
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.
| Room | Receptions gained | n | t |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receivers | +0.584 | 1,537 | 11.16 |
| Tight ends | +0.175 | 1,080 | 3.33 |
| Backs | +0.113 | 1,011 | 2.00 |
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.
Josh Downs’s full stats and usageSnap share, target share, game log and this week’s projection