Garrett Wilson Camp Update — August 23: A Sick Day, Then Back to Work
2026 NFL Season · Sunday, Aug 23
Garrett Wilson missed Monday's practice with an illness, was back catching a tight-window throw from Geno Smith on Tuesday, and drew a pass breakup from Dane Belton on Wednesday. The game reporting from Pittsburgh logged nothing on him either way, so the week's file is practice tape.
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Garrett Wilson's week started with an absence that turned out to be nothing structural: he missed Monday's practice with an illness, per the team's practice report from Amanda Vogt and Eric Allen, and was back the next day. Tuesday's report has him catching a tight-window throw from Geno Smith in the move-the-ball period during the longest practice of camp; Wednesday's has safety Dane Belton breaking up a pass intended for him in red-zone work — a routine week of a starter's reps, wins and losses included, per the team's reports. Friday's 17 to nothing win at Pittsburgh produced no Wilson line at all: neither the team's game recap from Vogt nor Randy Lange's receivers file mentions him, and the starters' offensive night consisted of one Geno Smith series on which the completions went to Adonai Mitchell, Jelani Woods and others. Whether Wilson played that series is not something the compiled reporting says, so we do not say it either.
Around him, the receiver room kept sorting itself: Mitchell caught both his targets on the starters' drive, rookie Omar Cooper earned first-team reps over veteran Isaiah Williams per Nick Faria at Jets on SI, and a stack of August names — Quincy Skinner Jr., Malik McClain, Junior Bergen — made the back-of-roster case in the game.
The June read called Wilson the rare simple case — a three-time thousand-yard receiver whose target volume is bankable regardless of quarterback, with the ceiling gated by the passing situation around him. That situation had its best week of the summer: Smith went seven for seven in his one series after a week of managed practice workloads. A quiet, healthy week for the volume half plus a functioning quarterback for the ceiling half is the good version of uneventful. What to watch: whether Wilson gets a series with Smith in the preseason finale, and how the receiver rotation behind him is trimmed at cutdown to 53 on Sunday, August thirtieth. We'll check after cut day.
_Data via nflverse._
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