Should I start Brenton Strange or Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Brenton Strange's market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 92nd highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

Omar Cooper Jr.'s market-based projection is 9.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 93rd highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brenton Strange, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Omar Cooper Jr., and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Brenton Strange has been on the field for 79 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 33 targets have averaged 7.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against CIN he caught 7 of 8 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 7 of 8 targets for 68 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against HOU he caught 5 of 7 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Omar Cooper Jr. has been on the field for 64 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 9 third down targets and had 1 of its 3 chances inside the five.

His 5 targets have averaged 10.2 air yards.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 5 of 5 targets for 115 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brenton Strange played 12 games and scored 118.0 PPR points, 9.8 a game, finishing TE23.

He caught 46 of 60 targets for 540 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 5.0 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Omar Cooper Jr. is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Brenton Strange is a tight end and Omar Cooper Jr. a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Brenton Strange is off in Week 7 and Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.0 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.