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Rome Odunze injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Chicago Bears · 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, Rome Odunze played 29 of 34 regular-season games (85%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Chicago Bears room absorbs +0.95 receptions, and Luther Burden III takes the largest single share at +0.24. 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 Rome Odunze sitsLuther Burden III+0.2WR 58% snapsKalif Raymond+0.2WR 61% snapsZavion Thomas+0.2WR 12% snapsJahdae Walker+0.2WR 8% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Rome Odunze WR · 91% snaps4.00—OUT
Luther Burden III WR · 58% snaps4.504.74+0.24
Colston Loveland TE · 85% snaps4.004.00+0.00
D'Andre Swift RB · 58% snaps3.103.10+0.00
Kalif Raymond WR · 61% snaps2.803.04+0.24
Cole Kmet TE · 64% snaps1.201.20+0.00
Roschon Johnson RB · 23% snaps1.201.20+0.00
Kyle Monangai RB · 40% snaps1.101.10+0.00
Zavion Thomas WR · 12% snaps0.901.14+0.24
Sam Roush TE · 22% snaps0.700.70+0.00
Zavier Scott RB · 0% snaps0.700.70+0.00
Jahdae Walker WR · 8% snaps0.200.43+0.23

Injury history

Over his 2 full seasons on record, Rome Odunze played 29 of 34 regular-season games (85%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026CHI6 of 6001Calf
2025CHI12 of 17532Foot
2024CHI17 of 17001Knee

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.

Rome Odunze’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