Is Jakobi Meyers playing this week?
No injury designationOfficial practice report (week 4): Full practice, thumb injury.
Jakobi Meyers has no injury designation on the latest injury reports for the week 4 game at the Cincinnati Bengals.
Kickoff: Sun, Oct 4 · 1:00 PM ET.
Checked Oct 3, 7:37 PM ET against the ESPN injury report and the NFL's official weekly report (via nflverse). Injury news can change up to kickoff, so confirm with the team close to game time.
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Fantasy football · Week 4
Our own start/sit calls for every player, with a projected score, the range of likely outcomes and the reasons spelled out. Built from usage, matchup, Vegas lines and injuries. How we rank
Bench. Projected 5.5 points, 0.1 behind #36, the last one we'd start.
Why we say bench
- Projected 5.5 points, #38 among WRs this week, 0.1 points behind #36, the last one we'd start.
- Upside: Scored 12.4 points last game against a typical 5.6 (trending up).
- Averaging 3.7 targets a game.
- Played 81% of the offense's snaps last game.
Recent form
Dashed line: the usual 5.6 a game
This week's matchup
- Expected team score
- ~25 pts
- Vegas line
- JAX underdogs by 2.5
- Game total
- 51.5
- CIN vs WRs
- 12% fewer points
- Last game snaps
- 81%
All week 4 wide receiver rankings →Start or sit tool →How our past calls did →
Age
29
Height
6'2"
Weight
200 lb
College
N.C. State
Experience
7 seasons
Draft
2019 · Undrafted
Status
ACT
Grade Breakdown
What do these mean?Why 98.4?
This grade is driven almost entirely by huge production on his targets: he leads all wide receivers in expected points per target and ranks 2nd in success rate. Note this is based on just 11 targets in one game, so a couple big plays swing things heavily.
Lifting the grade
- Top-ranked EPA per target at +1.606, best of 89 WRs
- 82% success rate on targets, 2nd among all WRs
- Deep touchdown catch vs CLE (32 yards, +3.8 expected points) and a 28-yard gain vs DEN (+3.1 expected points)
Written by StatGrades AI from this season's play-by-play through week 3. It explains what happened; a grade isn't a forecast (what grades do and don't predict).
EPA / play
1.475
Success rate
82%
WPA (sum)
0.28
Opponent adj.
0.124
Plays graded
11
Advanced stats
2026 season through Week 3 · tracking data from NFL Next Gen StatsWhat do these mean?
- Separation:
- Average distance from the nearest defender at the moment of the catch.
- Cushion:
- Average distance from the nearest defender at the snap.
- YAC above exp:
- Yards after catch above what the situation would be expected to produce.
- YAC / rec:
- Average yards after the catch per reception.
- Expected YAC:
- Expected yards after the catch, based on tracking data.
- Air yards share:
- Share of the team's intended air yards that were thrown toward this player.
- Intended air yds:
- Average depth of the targets thrown his way.
- Catch %:
- Receptions divided by targets.
Next Gen Stats data via nflverse (CC BY 4.0). Updated after games are final, not live, and covers QB, RB, WR and TE.