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nfl_injuries

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Injury report

Use for injury report questions. Look up player injury status by team, season, week, player name, or report status (Out, Questionable, Doubtful, Full Participation). Returns primary/secondary injuries and both report and practice statuses.

Minimum tier: Free
Data coverage: 2013 onwards seasons

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`team`	string	Optional	Team abbreviation (e.g. KC, PHI)
`season`	integer	Optional	Season year. Omit for all seasons.
`week`	integer	Optional	Week number (1–22).
`player`	string	Optional	Player name — full ('Justin Jefferson') or short ('J.Jefferson') both accepted.
`gsis_id`	string	Optional	Exact GSIS player ID; mutually exclusive with player and gsis_ids.
`gsis_ids`	array	Optional	Up to 100 exact GSIS IDs; mutually exclusive with player and gsis_id.
`report_status`	string	Optional	Injury designation: 'Out', 'Questionable', 'Doubtful', 'Full Participation In Practice'
`limit`	integer	Optional	Max rows per page (default 100, max 500).
`offset`	integer	Optional	Row offset for pagination; pass the returned next_offset for the next page.
`plan_id`	string	Optional	Optional analysis correlation ID returned by nfl_plan. Pass the same plan_id to every tool call that belongs to that analysis.

Example request

A Model Context Protocol tools/call over Streamable HTTP. Replace YOUR_API_KEY with a key from your dashboard. This is a low-level request example; MCP clients manage protocol initialization and browser OAuth for you.

curl -X POST https://mcp.nflmcp.com/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "nfl_injuries",
    "arguments": {
      "team": "KC",
      "season": 2024,
      "week": 1
    }
  }
}'

Example response

Excerpt · lists trimmed

{
  "injuries": [
    {
      "player": "Chris Jones",
      "position": "DT",
      "team": "KC",
      "gsis_id": "00-0032762",
      "season": 2024,
      "week": 1,
      "report_primary_injury": null,
      "report_secondary_injury": null,
      "report_status": null,
      "practice_primary_injury": "Shoulder",
      "practice_secondary_injury": null,
      "practice_status": "Full Participation in Practice"
    },
    {
      "player": "Derrick Nnadi",
      "position": "DT",
      "team": "KC",
      "gsis_id": "00-0034818",
      "season": 2024,
      "week": 1,
      "report_primary_injury": null,
      "report_secondary_injury": null,
      "report_status": null,
      "practice_primary_injury": "Triceps",
      "practice_secondary_injury": null,
      "practice_status": "Full Participation in Practice"
    },
    {
      "player": "James Winchester",
      "position": "LS",
      "team": "KC",
      "gsis_id": "00-0030615",
      "season": 2024,
      "week": 1,
      "report_primary_injury": null,
      "report_secondary_injury": null,
      "report_status": null,
      "practice_primary_injury": "Shoulder",
      "practice_secondary_injury": null,
      "practice_status": "Full Participation in Practice"
    }
  ],
  "count": 9
}

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