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Cleveland Browns · 2026
Quinshon Judkins injury: status and who’s next up
Week 6 injury report
QuestionableAnkle· Limited practice
Quinshon Judkins is listed as questionable (ankle) for Week 6. That designation means the team expects he is uncertain to play.
Next game: BAL at CLE, Sun, Oct 18, 1:00 PM EDT. Game-day inactives are posted about 90 minutes before kickoff and are the final word.
Week 6 report. Status last changed ; feed checked .
Who is next up if Quinshon Judkins misses time?
Published next man up
Jaleel McLaughlin
Cleveland's unofficial Week 6 depth chart, posted Oct. 13 (date-level precision), runs Judkins, Raheim Sanders, FB Michael Burton, then Jaleel McLaughlin - but later that same afternoon the Browns placed Sanders on injured reserve with a hip injury sustained at the Jets and signed Audric Estime off Minnesota's practice squad. With Dylan Sampson also on injured reserve, McLaughlin is the top healthy halfback behind Judkins, who carries a questionable tag in the league injury data. Estime is the live threat to this pick: he arrived the same day and is not yet on the depth chart, so the committee is genuinely unresolved and confidence is capped. McLaughlin is free almost everywhere; he needs Judkins to sit, and even then Estime could take goal-line work.
This is a shared backfield: the preferred stash is not a promise of all the replacement touches.
Full handcuff breakdown for Quinshon Judkins
The rest of the room
Audric Estime
goal line · score 53/100
Michael Burton
fullback · score 28/100
Injury history
2025: dislocated right ankle and fractured fibula in Week 16, ending his rookie season; surgery Dec. 23. 2026: cleared for full contact, opened camp unlimited, played every game through Week 5. Seen in a walking boot on his right foot after the Week 5 loss at the Jets (Oct. 11), having finished the game with no injury announcement. No diagnosis or return timetable reported.
A scouting summary of past injuries, not a prediction. How history ratings work.
Backfield analysis published .
Quinshon Judkins on the 2026 injury report
| Week | Game status | Injury | Practice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 6 | Questionable | Ankle | Limited practice |
| Week 3 | None | Not injury related - personal matter | Full practice |
Each row is the last status the team reported for that week. Weeks without a row mean he was not on the report. Source: official NFL weekly injury reports, as published in the nflverse data release.
The production behind the names
2026 regular season. Recorded production, not a projection. A missing stat line is not a zero.
| Player | Games with stats | Carries | Receptions | Total yards | PPR / game |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 73 | 18 | 323 | 11.3 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 3.0 |
Carries + receptions, last 5 recorded games in 2026
Carries + receptions, last 3 recorded games in 2026
Totals include all teams played for that season. Per-game averages use games with recorded stats. Source: nflverse player statistics.
See every running back on this week’s injury report, or compare handcuffs for every starter. Statuses come from team reports and do not establish game-day availability.
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