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Roman Wilson injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Pittsburgh Steelers · Wide receiver · status this week: ON RESERVE / IR (ESPN)

Checked Oct 21, 2026.

Over his 2 full seasons on record, Roman Wilson played 14 of 34 regular-season games (41%), and 5 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

No absence modeled for week 7. There is no week 7 projection for him, so there is no “if he sits” to model this week. 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 2 full seasons on record, Roman Wilson played 14 of 34 regular-season games (41%), and 5 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026PIT5 of 6110Finger
2025PIT13 of 17400—
2024PIT1 of 171632Hamstring, Ankle

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.

Roman Wilson’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