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

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Douglas, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darius Cooper, and the board ranks him 163rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Caleb Douglas's market-based projection is 9.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 70th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Darius Cooper is 1.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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 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, Darius Cooper has been on the field for 64 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 78 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 46 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 11.8 air yards.

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

In Week 7 against DAL he caught 1 of 3 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against WAS he caught 2 of 6 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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

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.

Head to head

This season Caleb Douglas holds the bigger snap share, 82 percent against 64 percent.

This season Caleb Douglas holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Caleb Douglas is off in Week 6 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.