As of week 7, Oren Burks was an ILB for CIN, age 31.4, 8 seasons of experience, drafted in round 3. In 2026 through week 6 he was listed at depth rank 1 on his club's depth chart; he had played 5 games on 8% of snaps; his line was 1.8 tackles a game, 0 sacks a game and 0 passes defended a game. Before 2026 he played 140 games (postseason included) over 8 seasons. His injury history held 9 episodes (groin 3, knee 3, shoulder 2), 2 of them reaching OUT, 5 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was a groin injury in 2025 week 9.
The full read
In short
Oren Burks is a special-teams player at strong-side linebacker for CIN — 82% of the kicking snaps over 5 weeks. His team has not listed him on the final report.
He is not on this week's injury report
Which is the ordinary state of a healthy player, and it is a successful read rather than a missing one. We publish a call for every player a team lists; if the week has not been called yet, it will say so on the week's page.
No dated practice report for him this week
The team has not published one we can date, or the window has not reached it. Not the same as his having practiced.
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
Tackles / game1.8 range 1.0–3.0
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Sacks / game0.0 range 0.0–0.0
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Passes defended / game0.0 range 0.0–0.0
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Snap share8.4% range 0–18
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
5%wk 1
0%wk 2
5%wk 3
18%wk 4
14%wk 5
Medical history
When
Injury
Weeks on a report
Worst status
2025 · wk 9
groin
1
Questionable
2024 · wk 7
groin
1
—
2023 · wk 15
knee
3
Out
2023 · wk 1
knee
1
—
2022 · wk 1
knee
1
—
2020 · wk 1
groin
2
—
2019 · wk 17
shoulder
1
—
2019 · wk 1
chest
11
Out
2018 · wk 1
shoulder
3
Questionable
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 9 episodes · 24 weeks on a report · same site more than once: groin ×3
2018
shoulder · 3w
2019
shoulder · 1wchest · 11w
2020
groin · 2w
2022
knee · 1w
2023
knee · 3wknee · 1w
2024
groin · 1w
2025
groin · 1w
2026
Weeks 1–18
ruled out
questionable
listed, and played
Each bar is one episode: the week it began and how many weeks he was on a report, coloured by the worst status.
The rest of his team's report this week
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
Jalen Davis
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Tanner Hudson
TE
UNK
team's word
—
Ja'Sir Taylor
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Andrei Iosivas
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Swayze Bozeman
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Brian Parker II
OT
UNK
team's word
—
The model reads the room: who else is out shifts what his own designation is worth.
The data behind this page — the timeline in words, every call and week on record, about him, and what this page does not show
Profile — as of week 7
Role
ILB1 · 8% snaps
Season
2026 · 5 games through wk 6
Per game
1.8 tackles · 0 sacks · 0 passes defended
Career
8 seasons · 140 games before 2026
Injuries
9 episodes · last: groin, 2025 wk 9
Bio
age 31.4 · 8 seasons' experience · drafted round 3
Where the profile comes from
Built from: honors.db; nflverse injuries_2026.csv; medical.db; nflverse players.csv; profile.db; nflverse roster_2026.csv; nflverse roster_weekly_2026.csv; nflverse snap_counts_2026.csv; nflverse stats_player_week_2026.csv. Every number in it is one those sources hold.