Should I start Bo Melton or Jacob Cowing in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 5:51 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Jacob Cowing over Bo Melton
- Market projects
- 3.0
- recent weeks avg
- ATL D vs WR
- 37.0
- 6th most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 30%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 3%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 0.9
- recent weeks avg
- DET D vs WR
- 41.0
- 2nd most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 25%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 6
Start Jacob Cowing over Bo Melton in Week 7: 3.0 to 0.9 PPR points a game over recent weeks. Cowing faces ATL, which allows the 6th most fantasy points to WRs.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
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The gap
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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
Our board does not carry Bo Melton at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
Our board does not carry Jacob Cowing at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking 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
No season market is posted for Bo Melton, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Jacob Cowing, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
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, Jacob Cowing has been on the field for 31 percent of SF snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 14.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DEN he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against SEA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
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.
The season feed carries no line for Jacob Cowing in the last completed season.
Head to head
This season Jacob Cowing holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 25 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 4 percent each.
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