Too close to call: Omar Cooper Jr. (7.8) and Brandin Cooks (7.6) project within 0.2 PPR points of each other in Week 7, and Omar Cooper Jr. faces the 3rd-toughest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Omar Cooper Jr. WR · NYJ | Brandin Cooks WR · SF | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 7.8 | 7.6 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 5.8 | 6.3 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 9.5 | 8.7 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs MIA | vs ATL |
| Opponent vs. position | 3rd-toughest (23.2 pts/g allowed) | 6th-softest (37.0 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 15% target share (last 2) | 6% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | SIT · Bench | SIT · Bench |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. Omar Cooper Jr. projects for 7.8 PPR points and Brandin Cooks for 7.6, within 0.2 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: 7.8 PPR points for Omar Cooper Jr. and 7.6 for Brandin Cooks.
The sources range from 5.8 to 9.5 for Cooper Jr. and from 6.3 to 8.7 for Cooks. 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 5.8 for Omar Cooper Jr..
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Omar Cooper Jr. has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Cooper Jr. at 9.5 PPR points, against 8.7 for Brandin Cooks.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Omar Cooper Jr. plays MIA and Brandin Cooks plays ATL in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Cooper Jr. faces the 3rd-toughest defense against WRs and Cooks faces the 6th-softest 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 Omar Cooper Jr. has drawn 15% of his team's targets, and Brandin Cooks 6% of his team's targets.
Omar Cooper Jr. 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 Omar Cooper Jr..
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Omar Cooper Jr. nor Brandin Cooks 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). Omar Cooper Jr. is projected by 4 of them and Brandin Cooks by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.