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Mason Taylor injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

New York Jets · 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 1 full season on record, Mason Taylor played 13 of 17 regular-season games (76%), and 4 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The New York Jets room absorbs +0.72 receptions, and Kenyon Sadiq 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 Mason Taylor sitsKenyon Sadiq+0.2TE 43% snapsJeremy Ruckert+0.2TE 35% snapsJelani Woods+0.2TE 32% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Mason Taylor TE · 53% snaps2.60—OUT
Garrett Wilson WR · 95% snaps5.505.50+0.00
Omar Cooper Jr. WR · 82% snaps4.204.20+0.00
Adonai Mitchell WR · 82% snaps2.502.50+0.00
Breece Hall RB · 56% snaps2.402.40+0.00
Isaiah Williams WR · 68% snaps1.901.90+0.00
Kenyon Sadiq TE · 43% snaps1.902.14+0.24
Braelon Allen RB · 70% snaps1.801.80+0.00
Sterling Shepard WR · 49% snaps1.401.40+0.00
Tim Patrick WR · 81% snaps1.401.40+0.00
Jeremy Ruckert TE · 35% snaps1.101.34+0.24
Jelani Woods TE · 32% snaps0.700.94+0.24
Isaiah Davis RB · 11% snaps0.500.50+0.00
Jamaal Pritchett WR · 0% snaps0.500.50+0.00

Injury history

Over his 1 full season on record, Mason Taylor played 13 of 17 regular-season games (76%), and 4 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026NYJ4 of 6220Thumb
2025NYJ13 of 17442Neck, Ankle, Quadricep

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.

Mason Taylor’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