Should I start Caleb Douglas or Cooper Kupp in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Douglas, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cooper Kupp, and the board ranks him 177th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Caleb Douglas's market-based projection is 8.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 89th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Cooper Kupp is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Caleb Douglas has been on the field for 82 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.

In Week 2 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYJ he caught 2 of 3 targets for 70 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 43 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Cooper Kupp has been on the field for 71 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 5 of 10 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against KC he caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CHI he caught 1 of 3 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

Caleb Douglas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Cooper Kupp played 16 games and scored 117.3 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing WR53.

He caught 47 of 70 targets for 593 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 12.6 yards a catch.

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

Head to head

This season Caleb Douglas holds the bigger snap share, 82 percent against 71 percent.

This season Caleb Douglas holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 12 percent.

Byes and availability

Caleb Douglas is off in Week 6 and Cooper Kupp in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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