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Stefon Diggs injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Washington Commanders · Wide receiver · status this week: on bye in week 7 · last report: QUESTIONABLE · Hamstring (week 7 report, captured Wed 21 Oct, 6:15am)

Checked Oct 21, 2026.

Over his 10 full seasons on record, Stefon Diggs played 148 of 164 regular-season games (90%), and 5 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

No absence modeled for week 7. The Washington Commanders are on their bye in week 7, so there is no game for him to miss and no absence 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 10 full seasons on record, Stefon Diggs played 148 of 164 regular-season games (90%), and 5 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026WAS5 of 6111Hamstring
2025NE17 of 17001Chest
2024HOU8 of 17900—
2023BUF17 of 17000—
2022BUF16 of 16000—
2021BUF17 of 17000—
2020BUF16 of 16000—
2019MIN15 of 16101Hamstring
2018MIN15 of 16102Knee, Rib
2017MIN14 of 16221Groin
2016MIN13 of 16304Groin, Hip, Knee

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.

Stefon Diggs’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