D'Andre Swift or Cooper Kupp: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on D'Andre Swift: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 13.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cooper Kupp: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has D'Andre Swift at 6.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Cooper Kupp at 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 123 players the market prices.

D'Andre Swift's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 56 percent of CHI snaps, taken 44 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 10 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against PHI he carried 20 times for 84 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 15 times for 58 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he carried 9 times for 43 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Cooper Kupp has been on the field for 64 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 9.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against WAS he caught 4 of 5 targets for 46 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 D'Andre Swift played 16 games and scored 228.6 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing RB15.

He carried 223 times for 1087 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 34 of 48 targets for 299 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 D'Andre Swift scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Cooper Kupp 7.3, 7.0 a game between them.

D'Andre Swift finished RB15 and Cooper Kupp WR53, which are two different ladders.

D'Andre Swift is a running back and Cooper Kupp a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

D'Andre Swift is off in Week 10 and Cooper Kupp in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

D'Andre Swift is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.