Too close to call: Khalil Shakir (9.9) and Omar Cooper Jr. (9.9) project within 0.0 PPR points of each other in Week 8, and Khalil Shakir faces the 7th-softest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| Khalil Shakir WR · BUF | Omar Cooper Jr. WR · NYJ | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 9.9 | 9.9 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 9.4 | 9.1 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 11.0 | 10.5 |
| StatChasers projection | 10.2 (WR36) | 9.8 (WR38) |
| Opponent | vs BAL | vs LV |
| Opponent vs. position | 7th-softest (35.8 pts/g allowed) | 15th-softest (31.4 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 22% target share (last 3) | 16% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | FLEX · Flex | FLEX · Flex |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. Khalil Shakir projects for 9.9 PPR points and Omar Cooper Jr. for 9.9, within 0.0 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: 9.9 PPR points for Khalil Shakir and 9.9 for Omar Cooper Jr..
The sources range from 9.4 to 11.0 for Shakir and from 9.1 to 10.5 for Cooper Jr.. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Khalil Shakir is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Shakir at 9.4 PPR points, against 9.1 for Omar Cooper Jr..
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Khalil Shakir has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Shakir at 11.0 PPR points, against 10.5 for Omar Cooper Jr..
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Khalil Shakir plays BAL and Omar Cooper Jr. plays LV in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Shakir faces the 7th-softest defense against WRs and Cooper Jr. faces the 15th-softest defense against WRs, so Khalil Shakir 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 Khalil Shakir has drawn 22% of his team's targets, and Omar Cooper Jr. 16% of his team's targets.
Khalil Shakir 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 Khalil Shakir.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Khalil Shakir nor Omar Cooper Jr. has an injury designation for Week 8.
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). Khalil Shakir is projected by 5 of them and Omar Cooper Jr. by 5.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.