Rashod Bateman injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Baltimore Ravens · Wide receiver · status this week: QUESTIONABLE (ESPN)

Checked Oct 21, 2026.

Over his 5 full seasons on record, Rashod Bateman played 64 of 85 regular-season games (75%), 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 wide receivers 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, Rashod Bateman played 64 of 85 regular-season games (75%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

Season	Team	Played	Missed	Listed out	Questionable	Injuries listed
2026	BAL	6 of 6	0	0	0	—
2025	BAL	13 of 17	4	2	2	Ankle, Illness
2024	BAL	17 of 17	0	0	1	Foot
2023	BAL	16 of 17	1	1	0	Hamstring
2022	BAL	6 of 17	11	3	2	Foot
2021	BAL	12 of 17	5	0	1	Groin

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:

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.

Rashod Bateman’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