Jaylin Lane

Run of Oct 19

Jaylin Lane

Washington Commanders WR IR IR since Oct 6

Wk 6 -- Read as the page opens
Rest of season 11.8 from week 6, WR IR, unranked while on a season-long list
Opp rank -- at SF
Avg 1.1 a game in 4 games
Last 0.0 week 4 vs IND
Δ Proj --

On injured reserve since October 6. Our rest-of-season figure assumes he plays, so he sits below the available players. Injury status from the hourly capture, read Mon Oct 19, 2:00 am Eastern.

This season 2026, PPR, through week 5

Jaylin Lane week by week, 2026
WkOppthe week's projectionPPR pointstargetscatchesreceiving yardsreceiving touchdownscarriesrushing yardsrushing touchdownsshare of snaps
1at PHI--1.4114000026%
2at DAL--0.0000000015%
3vs SEA--3.1112100007%
4vs IND--0.000000002%
5vs NYGDid not play--
Season4 games, 1.1 a game4.52225000013%

Still to play

  1. Wk 6 at SF Mon Oct 19
  2. Wk 7 Bye
  3. Wk 8 vs PHI Sun Nov 1
  4. Wk 9 vs LAR Sun Nov 8
  5. Wk 10 at NYG Thu Nov 12
  6. Wk 11 vs CIN Mon Nov 23
  7. Wk 12 at ARI Sun Nov 29
  8. Wk 13 at TEN Sun Dec 6
  9. Wk 14 vs HOU Sun Dec 13
  10. Wk 15 vs ATL Sun Dec 20
  11. Wk 16 at MIN Sun Dec 27
  12. Wk 17 at JAX Sun Jan 3
  13. Wk 18 vs DAL Sun Jan 10

Our read

Written Sun 12:01 am Central, for week 6

Jaylin Lane sits on injured reserve on Sunday's report, so he does not play in week 6 of 2026 and there is no number to chase against the 49ers on Monday night. Washington's 22.3-point expected score in San Francisco was never going to reach a guy listed seventh among Commanders receivers anyway, behind McLaurin, Diggs, Antonio Williams and Luke McCaffrey, and his 1.1 PPR points a game over four games tells you he wasn't filling a lineup spot before the injury. Keep him stashed where he is and find a fill-in for the week.

Written Oct 18, from his facts through last season

The IR designation decides everything here. Lane has been on it since before week 5 of 2026, he plays no game while he sits on that list, and the board ranks him below every available receiver in Washington. Before the injury, the season had already told us what he was: 1.1 points a game over four weeks, two targets, two catches, 25 yards, and a 0-point week in both week 2 and week 4 of 2026.

Rest of season11.8PPR points from week 6
Preseason projection58projected PPR points

Even if he got healthy tomorrow, the path has not moved. McLaurin, Diggs, and Antonio Williams sit ahead of him on the depth chart, and Deebo Samuel Sr. plus McLaurin took 48% of the targets in this offense last season. Receivers in his spot saw their points a game fall 0.9 on average from one season to the next, which tracks with everything else here. In 2025 he ran a 37.0% snap share with an 8.2% target share, turned 2 red-zone touches into nothing, and beat the position's weekly median just 4 times in 15 games. He never cleared 15 points in any of those weeks, and the role was never going to widen behind the group ahead of him.

Our preseason number was 58 points for the full season, built on 13 expected games, and a quarter of the schedule is gone with almost nothing produced and one week missed. With his bye in week 7 of 2026 still ahead and no return date, there is no stretch on the calendar worth a roster spot. We would let him go and use the space on someone who can actually take a snap this week.

Jaylin Lane in every format
FormatOur rankRest of season from week 6Over replacementTier
PPRIR11.8−86.2IR
Half PPRIR9.6−73.9IR
StandardIR7.3−61.0IR

Wk 6, Opp rank and Δ Proj are this week's, read as the page opens.

Stats from the NFL's records, scored in PPR.

Stats from nflverse and charting from FTN Data via nflverse, both under Creative Commons licences, our rates worked out from their counts.