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Zay Flowers injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out

Baltimore Ravens · 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 3 full seasons on record, Zay Flowers played 50 of 51 regular-season games (98%), and 5 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.

The Baltimore Ravens room absorbs +4.39 receptions, and Rashod Bateman takes the largest single share at +0.71. 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 Zay Flowers sitsRashod Bateman+0.7WR 68% snapsElijah Sarratt+0.6WR 36% snapsLaJohntay Wester+0.5WR 20% snapsChris Moore+0.5WR 39% snapsDevontez Walker+0.5WR 50% snapsJa'Kobi Lane+0.4WR 54% snapsMark Andrews+0.2TE 65% snapsJosh Cuevas+0.1TE 25% snapsMatthew Hibner+0.1TE 45% snapsNick Vannett+0.1TE 32% snapsDurham Smythe+0.1TE 45% snapsDerrick Henry+0.1RB 59% snapsRasheen Ali+0.1RB 0% snapsJustice Hill+0.1RB 41% snapschange in projected receptions

Every player in the room

PlayerCatches nowIf he sitsChange
Zay Flowers WR · 69% snaps5.70—OUT
Mark Andrews TE · 65% snaps3.603.76+0.16
Ja'Kobi Lane WR · 54% snaps2.903.29+0.39
Rashod Bateman WR · 68% snaps2.703.41+0.71
Justice Hill RB · 41% snaps1.902.02+0.12
Derrick Henry RB · 59% snaps1.501.63+0.13
Devontez Walker WR · 50% snaps1.401.89+0.49
Elijah Sarratt WR · 36% snaps1.101.74+0.64
Josh Cuevas TE · 25% snaps1.101.25+0.15
Matthew Hibner TE · 45% snaps0.901.05+0.15
LaJohntay Wester WR · 20% snaps0.400.91+0.51
Rasheen Ali RB · 0% snaps0.400.53+0.13
Chris Moore WR · 39% snaps0.300.81+0.51
Nick Vannett TE · 32% snaps0.300.45+0.15
Durham Smythe TE · 45% snaps0.100.25+0.15

Injury history

Over his 3 full seasons on record, Zay Flowers played 50 of 51 regular-season games (98%), and 5 of 6 so far in 2026.

SeasonTeamPlayedMissedListed outQuestionableInjuries listed
2026BAL5 of 6103Hamstring, Foot
2025BAL17 of 17001Shoulder
2024BAL17 of 17002Ankle, Shoulder
2023BAL16 of 17103Calf, Foot, Hip

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.

Zay Flowers’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