Reed's made the 4th most tackles in the entire NRL this season. He has a better Tackle Efficiency than Koroisau (who, in case anyone missed it, is starting for NSW this week). For that stat, he's only 1.09% behind Cook and 2.5% behind Grant. He averages over 5 tackles a game more than our next highest player, 7 more than our 3rd highest and the rest of the team drops off dramatically from there.
What you're seeing when Reed gets bumped around is him literally putting his ass on the line when he's long since run out of steam because he's carrying a candy-ass forward pack who consistently get rolled.