Too close to call: Ja'Kobi Lane (6.8) and Cooper Kupp (6.7) project within 0.1 PPR points of each other in Week 7, and Ja'Kobi Lane faces the 9th-toughest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Ja'Kobi Lane WR · BAL | Cooper Kupp WR · SEA | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 6.8 | 6.7 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 6.2 | 6.4 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 7.6 | 7.0 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs CIN | vs KC |
| Opponent vs. position | 9th-toughest (29.5 pts/g allowed) | 1st-toughest (20.8 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 14% target share (last 2) | 16% 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. Ja'Kobi Lane projects for 6.8 PPR points and Cooper Kupp for 6.7, 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: 6.8 PPR points for Ja'Kobi Lane and 6.7 for Cooper Kupp.
The sources range from 6.2 to 7.6 for Lane and from 6.4 to 7.0 for Kupp. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Cooper Kupp is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Kupp at 6.4 PPR points, against 6.2 for Ja'Kobi Lane.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Ja'Kobi Lane has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Lane at 7.6 PPR points, against 7.0 for Cooper Kupp.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Ja'Kobi Lane plays CIN and Cooper Kupp plays KC in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Lane faces the 9th-toughest defense against WRs and Kupp faces the 1st-toughest defense against WRs, so Ja'Kobi Lane 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 Ja'Kobi Lane has drawn 14% of his team's targets, and Cooper Kupp 16% of his team's targets.
Cooper Kupp 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 Cooper Kupp.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Ja'Kobi Lane nor Cooper Kupp 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). Ja'Kobi Lane is projected by 3 of them and Cooper Kupp by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.