Too close to call: Brandin Cooks (7.6) and Jaylin Noel (7.5) project within 0.1 PPR points of each other in Week 7, and Brandin Cooks faces the 6th-softest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Brandin Cooks WR · SF | Jaylin Noel WR · HOU | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 7.6 | 7.5 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 6.3 | 4.9 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 8.7 | 8.9 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs ATL | vs NYG |
| Opponent vs. position | 6th-softest (37.0 pts/g allowed) | 14th-toughest (31.1 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 6% target share (last 3) | 13% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | SIT · Bench | SIT · Bench |
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It is a coin flip. Brandin Cooks projects for 7.6 PPR points and Jaylin Noel for 7.5, within 0.1 of each other.
Break the tie with the floor if you are favored this week, and with the ceiling if you need a big game to win.
They are projected almost level: 7.6 PPR points for Brandin Cooks and 7.5 for Jaylin Noel.
The sources range from 6.3 to 8.7 for Cooks and from 4.9 to 8.9 for Noel. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Brandin Cooks is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Cooks at 6.3 PPR points, against 4.9 for Jaylin Noel.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Jaylin Noel has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Noel at 8.9 PPR points, against 8.7 for Brandin Cooks.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Brandin Cooks plays ATL and Jaylin Noel plays NYG in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Cooks faces the 6th-softest defense against WRs and Noel faces the 14th-toughest defense against WRs, so Brandin Cooks has the softer matchup.
Each projection already accounts for the opponent, so a soft matchup is a tiebreaker, not a reason to bench the higher projection.
Over his recent games Brandin Cooks has drawn 6% of his team's targets, and Jaylin Noel 13% of his team's targets.
Jaylin Noel has the bigger role, and volume is the steadiest thing a projection rests on.
These numbers are in PPR. Full PPR adds a point per catch, so it helps whichever player sees more targets, which here is Jaylin Noel.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Brandin Cooks nor Jaylin Noel has an injury designation for Week 7.
Designations change through the week, so check again before kickoff; this page updates with each refresh.
Each figure is the average of the projection sources that carry the player this week: StatChasers, Sleeper, ESPN, numberFire, FFToday and the betting markets (sportsbook player props). Brandin Cooks is projected by 4 of them and Jaylin Noel by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.