Too close to call: Cooper Kupp (6.7) and Makai Lemon (6.6) project within 0.1 PPR points of each other in Week 7, and Cooper Kupp faces the 1st-toughest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Cooper Kupp WR · SEA | Makai Lemon WR · PHI | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 6.7 | 6.6 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 6.4 | 4.4 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 7.0 | 9.1 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs KC | vs DAL |
| Opponent vs. position | 1st-toughest (20.8 pts/g allowed) | 7th-softest (36.2 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 16% target share (last 3) | 18% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | SIT · Bench | SIT · Bench |
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It is a coin flip. Cooper Kupp projects for 6.7 PPR points and Makai Lemon for 6.6, 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: 6.7 PPR points for Cooper Kupp and 6.6 for Makai Lemon.
The sources range from 6.4 to 7.0 for Kupp and from 4.4 to 9.1 for Lemon. 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 4.4 for Makai Lemon.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Makai Lemon has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Lemon at 9.1 PPR points, against 7.0 for Cooper Kupp.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Cooper Kupp plays KC and Makai Lemon plays DAL in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Kupp faces the 1st-toughest defense against WRs and Lemon faces the 7th-softest defense against WRs, so Makai Lemon 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 Cooper Kupp has drawn 16% of his team's targets, and Makai Lemon 18% of his team's targets.
Makai Lemon 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 Makai Lemon.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Cooper Kupp nor Makai Lemon 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). Cooper Kupp is projected by 4 of them and Makai Lemon by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.