Bo Melton or Darius Cooper: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Bo Melton over Darius Cooper

- Market projects
- 4.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 25%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 5

- Market projects
- 3.7
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 50%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 9%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Darius Cooper, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR45 · GB · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market-based projection
- 4.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR · PHI · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 3-2
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size205 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Bo Melton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Darius Cooper at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Bo Melton's market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 122nd highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Darius Cooper, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Bo Melton has been on the field for 25 percent of GB snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against ATL he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TB he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Darius Cooper has been on the field for 50 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 12.5 air yards.
In Week 3 against CHI he was not given the ball.
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.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Bo Melton played 16 games and scored 24.2 PPR points, 1.5 a game, finishing WR146.
He caught 4 of 13 targets for 107 yards and 1 touchdown, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 31 percent catch rate and 26.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 9 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.
Bo Melton was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Bo Melton scored 1.5 PPR points a game and Darius Cooper 1.4, 0.1 a game between them.
Bo Melton had 2 more targets than Darius Cooper, 13 to 11.
Bo Melton had 15 more receiving yards than Darius Cooper, 107 to 92.
This season Darius Cooper holds the bigger snap share, 50 percent against 25 percent.
This season Darius Cooper holds the bigger target share, 9 percent against 4 percent.
What would change the answer
Darius Cooper has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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