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Should I start Adonai Mitchell or Darius Cooper in Week 7?

Updated Oct 24, 7:16 AM ET.

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Week 7 verdict

Start

WR · NYJ · vs MIA

Market projects
6.5
fantasy pts
MIA D vs WR
23.2
3rd fewest to WRs (2026)
Upside
Rising
80 of 100 at WR
Snap share
76%
Through Week 2
Target share
25%
Through Week 2
Sit

WR · PHI · vs DAL

Market projects
4.7
recent weeks avg
DAL D vs WR
36.2
7th most to WRs (2026)
Upside
Limited
31 of 100 at WR
Snap share
52%
Through Week 6
Target share
8%
Through Week 6
Start Mitchell or Cooper? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Adonai Mitchell: 76 percent of the snaps and 25 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Darius Cooper's 79 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Adonai Mitchell for Darius Cooper?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Darius Cooper projects 30 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (3.3 a game over 9 games), Adonai Mitchell 17 (1.9 a game over 9 games). For Week 7 the call starts Adonai Mitchell over Darius Cooper. So make the move after his Week 7 game.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

WR51 · NYJ · bye 13

2025 vs anytime td line 2-14

Market-based projection
6.5 pts a game

WR87 · PHI · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 3-3

Overall rank
218

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The gap

  • Board size329 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Adonai Mitchell, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darius Cooper, and the board ranks him 218th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Adonai Mitchell's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Darius Cooper is 0.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Darius Cooper's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 2, Adonai Mitchell has been on the field for 76 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 15.8 air yards.

In Week 1 against TEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 60 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against GB he caught 6 of 12 targets for 63 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Darius Cooper has been on the field for 52 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 2 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAR he caught 3 of 7 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against JAX he caught 2 of 3 targets for 71 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against CAR he caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Adonai Mitchell played 16 games and scored 87.9 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR73.

He caught 33 of 74 targets for 453 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 45 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Darius Cooper played 13 games and scored 18.2 PPR points, 1.4 a game.

He caught 9 of 11 targets for 92 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 82 percent catch rate and 10.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 19 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Adonai Mitchell was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Adonai Mitchell scored 5.5 PPR points a game and Darius Cooper 1.4, 4.1 a game between them.

Adonai Mitchell had 63 more targets than Darius Cooper, 74 to 11.

Adonai Mitchell had 361 more receiving yards than Darius Cooper, 453 to 92.

This season Adonai Mitchell holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 52 percent.

This season Adonai Mitchell holds the bigger target share, 25 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Adonai Mitchell is off in Week 13 and Darius Cooper in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Darius Cooper has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Adonai Mitchell for Darius Cooper?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Darius Cooper projects 30 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (3.3 a game over 9 games), Adonai Mitchell 17 (1.9 a game over 9 games). For Week 7 the call starts Adonai Mitchell over Darius Cooper. So make the move after his Week 7 game.

  • Should I drop Darius Cooper for Adonai Mitchell?

    No. Keep Darius Cooper: he projects 30 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (3.3 a game over 9 games), Adonai Mitchell 17 (1.9 a game over 9 games). For Week 7 the call starts Adonai Mitchell over Darius Cooper.

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