LS · Jacksonville Jaguars · week 6 vs Houston Texans · Sun Oct 18 · 9:30 AM ET
Ross Matiscik
ROLE a backup
EXP 7 seasons
AGE 29-31
DEPTH LS1
Ross Matiscik is a LS for JAX, age 30, 6 seasons of experience. In 2026 through week 5 he is listed as a starter (depth rank 1); he has played 5 games on 0% of snaps. Before 2026 he played 104 games (postseason included) over 6 seasons with 3 Pro Bowls, 2 first-team All-Pro and 1 second-team All-Pro. His injury history holds 5 episodes (back 3, hamstring 2), 3 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was a back injury in 2025 week 14.
The full read
In short
Ross Matiscik is a backup at long snapper for JAX — 0% of the snaps in his best week of 5. He has a shoulder injury. This week he did not practise. His team has listed him Out.
His team's word: Out
This is the TEAM'S OWN ANNOUNCEMENT, not a reading of ours. His team filed him on the injury report and we are restating it so the record is complete. There is nothing early about repeating an announcement — what we say ahead of one is on the week's page. Source: his team's own word, restated.
Practice this week
Wed
DNPdated Wed Oct 14
Shape of the week: single reading. Only days the publisher dated are shown; a day we could not date is left out until the nightly sweep stamps it. The shape is a fact, not a forecast.
Stats, with ranges -- dot = his average, bar = his game range
Snap share0.0% range 0–0
wk 1–5 · 5 games
Snaps by week -- his larger of the offence and defence share
0%wk 1
0%wk 2
0%wk 3
0%wk 4
0%wk 5
Medical history
When
Injury
Weeks on a report
Worst status
2026 · wk 6
shoulder
1
—
2025 · wk 14
back
1
—
2024 · wk 14
hamstring
1
Questionable
2023 · wk 15
back
1
Questionable
2022 · wk 17
back
4
Questionable
2021 · wk 8
hamstring
1
—
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 6 episodes · 9 weeks on a report · same site more than once: back ×3
2021
hamstring · 1w
2022
back · 4w
2023
back · 1w
2024
hamstring · 1w
2025
back · 1w
2026
shoulder · 1w
Weeks 1–18
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.
Our past calls vs what happened
Wk 6not ourshis club's word, restated
Season on him: no call of ours graded yet. Graded by the record: right or a miss against whether he played. A week we did not call, or his club's own word, is not graded.
The rest of his team's report this week
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
Montaric Brown
CB
DNP
team's word
Out
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
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.