Start Brandin Cooks. Cooks is projected for 7.6 PPR points vs 7.1 for Kalif Raymond, and faces the 6th-softest defense against WRs this week.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Brandin Cooks WR · SF | Kalif Raymond WR · CHI | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 7.6 | 7.1 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 6.3 | 5.3 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 8.7 | 8.9 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs ATL | vs NE |
| Opponent vs. position | 6th-softest (37.0 pts/g allowed) | 16th-toughest (31.7 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 6% target share (last 3) | 8% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | SIT · Bench | SIT · Bench |
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Start Brandin Cooks. Cooks projects for 7.6 PPR points vs ATL, against 7.1 for Kalif Raymond vs NE: a 0.5-point edge.
The projection is the average of every source that carries each player this week, and a player listed Out or Doubtful is never the start.
Brandin Cooks is projected to score more: 7.6 PPR points to 7.1 for Kalif Raymond.
The sources range from 6.3 to 8.7 for Cooks and from 5.3 to 8.9 for Raymond. The ranges overlap, so Raymond outscoring Cooks is a realistic result.
Brandin Cooks is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Cooks at 6.3 PPR points, against 5.3 for Kalif Raymond.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Kalif Raymond has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Raymond 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 Kalif Raymond plays NE in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Cooks faces the 6th-softest defense against WRs and Raymond faces the 16th-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 Kalif Raymond 8% of his team's targets.
Kalif Raymond 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 Kalif Raymond.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Brandin Cooks nor Kalif Raymond 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 Kalif Raymond by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.