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Mike Gesicki injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Cincinnati Bengals · 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 8 full seasons on record, Mike Gesicki played 128 of 133 regular-season games (96%), and 5 of 5 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Cincinnati Bengals room absorbs +3.30 receptions, and Tanner Hudson takes the largest single share at +0.76. 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 Mike Gesicki sitsTanner Hudson+0.8TE 31% snapsErick All+0.7TE 33% snapsDrew Sample+0.7TE 47% snapsJack Endries+0.7TE 2% snapsColbie Young+0.1WR 10% snapsMitchell Tinsley+0.1WR 36% snapsJa'Marr Chase+0.1WR 74% snapsTee Higgins+0.1WR 78% snapsDohnte Meyers+0.1WR 48% snapsAndrei Iosivas+0.1WR 53% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Mike Gesicki TE · 48% snaps1.90—OUT
Ja'Marr Chase WR · 74% snaps6.306.36+0.06
Tee Higgins WR · 78% snaps4.404.46+0.06
Chase Brown RB · 0% snaps3.903.90+0.00
Dohnte Meyers WR · 48% snaps2.302.36+0.06
Tanner Hudson TE · 31% snaps1.602.36+0.76
Andrei Iosivas WR · 53% snaps1.201.26+0.06
Erick All TE · 33% snaps1.101.82+0.72
Samaje Perine RB · 0% snaps1.101.10+0.00
Colbie Young WR · 10% snaps0.800.87+0.07
Mitchell Tinsley WR · 36% snaps0.800.87+0.07
Drew Sample TE · 47% snaps0.701.42+0.72
Jack Endries TE · 2% snaps0.501.22+0.72

Injury history

Over his 8 full seasons on record, Mike Gesicki played 128 of 133 regular-season games (96%), and 5 of 5 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026CIN5 of 5000—
2025CIN13 of 17410Pectoral
2024CIN17 of 17000—
2023NE17 of 17000—
2022MIA17 of 17000—
2021MIA17 of 17000—
2020MIA15 of 16102Shoulder
2019MIA16 of 16000—
2018MIA16 of 16001Shoulder

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.

Mike Gesicki’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