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Malik Nabers injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

New York Giants · 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 2 full seasons on record, Malik Nabers played 19 of 34 regular-season games (56%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The New York Giants room absorbs +5.02 receptions, and Charlie Jones takes the largest single share at +0.89. 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 Malik Nabers sitsCharlie Jones+0.9WR 14% snapsOdell Beckham Jr.+0.8WR 7% snapsBraxton Berrios+0.6WR 7% snapsMalachi Fields+0.6WR 76% snapsDarnell Mooney+0.6WR 54% snapsDalen Cambre+0.4WR 2% snapsIsaiah Likely+0.1TE 78% snapsTheo Johnson+0.1TE 32% snapsThomas Fidone II+0.1TE 38% snapsChris Manhertz+0.1TE 32% snapsCam Skattebo+0.1RB 54% snapsTyrone Tracy Jr.+0.1RB 16% snapsDevin Singletary+0.1RB 33% snapsNajee Harris+0.1RB 17% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Malik Nabers WR · 81% snaps6.50—OUT
Isaiah Likely TE · 78% snaps5.205.35+0.15
Malachi Fields WR · 76% snaps2.603.16+0.56
Cam Skattebo RB · 54% snaps2.002.13+0.13
Theo Johnson TE · 32% snaps1.601.75+0.15
Darnell Mooney WR · 54% snaps1.502.06+0.56
Tyrone Tracy Jr. RB · 16% snaps1.201.33+0.13
Devin Singletary RB · 33% snaps1.101.23+0.13
Thomas Fidone II TE · 38% snaps0.700.85+0.15
Charlie Jones WR · 14% snaps0.501.39+0.89
Najee Harris RB · 17% snaps0.500.63+0.13
Patrick Ricard RB · 32% snaps0.300.43+0.13
Odell Beckham Jr. WR · 7% snaps0.200.97+0.77
Braxton Berrios WR · 7% snaps0.100.73+0.63
Chris Manhertz TE · 32% snaps0.100.25+0.15
Dalen Cambre WR · 2% snaps0.100.46+0.36

Injury history

Over his 2 full seasons on record, Malik Nabers played 19 of 34 regular-season games (56%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026NYG6 of 6001Knee
2025NYG4 of 171300—
2024NYG15 of 17223Concussion, Groin, Hip

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.

Malik Nabers’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