Devaughn Vele or Cooper Kupp: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM ET
Week 5 verdict
Start Devaughn Vele over Cooper Kupp
Right: 6.6 to 3.5
- Market projected
- 9.1
- pre-game
- Target share
- 25%
- Week 5
- Scored
- 6.6
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 6.3
- pre-game
- Target share
- 11%
- Week 5
- Scored
- 3.5
- PPR pts
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR40 · NO · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 9.1 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 101
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 17
WR59 · SEA · bye 11
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- Market price
- 6.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 146
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 21
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size291 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Devaughn Vele: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 101st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Cooper Kupp: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Devaughn Vele, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Cooper Kupp, 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, Devaughn Vele has been on the field for 91 percent of NO snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 13 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 31 two minute targets.
His 37 targets have averaged 9.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against LV he caught 3 of 6 targets for 39 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against ATL he caught 6 of 9 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against MIN he caught 4 of 6 targets for 26 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Cooper Kupp has been on the field for 60 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.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Devaughn Vele played 13 games and scored 66.3 PPR points, 5.1 a game, finishing WR95.
He caught 25 of 39 targets for 293 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 51 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.
Cooper Kupp was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Cooper Kupp scored 7.3 PPR points a game and Devaughn Vele 5.1, 2.2 a game between them.
Devaughn Vele finished WR95 that year and Cooper Kupp WR53.
Cooper Kupp had 31 more targets than Devaughn Vele, 70 to 39.
Cooper Kupp had 300 more receiving yards than Devaughn Vele, 593 to 293.
This season Devaughn Vele holds the bigger snap share, 91 percent against 60 percent.
This season Devaughn Vele holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 11 percent.
Byes and availability
Cooper Kupp is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Devaughn Vele.
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