Start with the source
InjuryDeck organizes saved NFL injury reports, practice participation, roster and schedule context, and available game-day evidence. College football views summarize published conference and team availability reports. Coverage depends on which sources are available for each team and game.
Reports link to their sources where available. Names without a verified player identity remain report-scoped instead of being silently merged. Public coverage currently focuses on the 2026 season.
A designation is not a game result
- Practice participation
- Did not participate, limited participation and full participation describe a saved practice observation. They do not establish game-day availability.
- Game designation
- Labels such as Questionable, Doubtful and Out describe the report's stated availability for that game. An Out designation is not the same record as an official inactive announcement.
- Game-day evidence
- Official inactive information and participation evidence are reconciled separately where available. Missing evidence stays unknown; absence from an injury report is not proof of participation.
- College availability
- An absence can have a non-injury reason. We do not infer medical, academic or disciplinary explanations when the source does not disclose them. Counts of listed players are not a roster availability percentage or an NFL health score.
Read the week and the timestamp
A player's latest saved report may belong to an earlier week. Check the season, week and matchup attached to each entry. Retained reports are labeled and are not presented as newly confirmed reports for the current game.
A capture time tells you when InjuryDeck saved an observation; it may differ from when the source published it. A dataset check can occur without any meaningful report change. The page-content update time changes when its significant content changes.
Historical imports may not have a verified pregame capture time. They should not be treated as proof of what was known before kickoff. Source outages and publication delays can leave gaps.
What changed—and what did not
Human-readable change summaries compare saved observations for the same player, team and game week. The first observation establishes a baseline; it does not invent an earlier status. A row disappearing does not establish recovery.
Change times describe when InjuryDeck detected the change. Intermediate source updates may be missed between checks, so these summaries are not a complete event-by-event history.
Editorial notes stay visible
InjuryDeck editorial annotations are labeled and displayed with their supporting source and context where available. They do not replace the saved source report or official game-day evidence. When saved sources disagree, review the linked evidence rather than treating the summary as certainty.
Our corrections process explains what to include when reporting an error.
How the analytical tools fit
Team Health combines report information with workload and coverage context. Its “How the health score works” explanation publishes the model's current weights, thresholds and limitations. A health score is a model, not a medical assessment or prediction that a particular player will play.
Team Age uses the roster and date-of-birth evidence available to the site. Historical running averages can change when underlying records are corrected; they are not necessarily snapshots of what was known at the time.
The NFL injury report hub offers readable, linked reports. NFL Team View provides interactive exploration. Both belong to InjuryDeck.