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Luke Farrell injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

San Francisco 49ers · 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.

Over his 5 full seasons on record, Luke Farrell played 82 of 85 regular-season games (96%), and 6 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 tight ends 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 5 full seasons on record, Luke Farrell played 82 of 85 regular-season games (96%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026SF6 of 6000—
2025SF17 of 17000—
2024JAX17 of 17000—
2023JAX17 of 17001Toe
2022JAX16 of 17100—
2021JAX15 of 17200—

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.

Luke Farrell’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