Cooper Kupp or Gunnar Helm: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Cooper Kupp's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 109th highest figure of the 156 players with a market-based projection.

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 113th highest figure of the 156 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cooper Kupp: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Gunnar Helm: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 125th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

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.

Through Week 5, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 77 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 4.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYG he caught 2 of 4 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Gunnar Helm played 16 games and scored 91.7 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE31.

He caught 44 of 55 targets for 357 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 8.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Cooper Kupp scored 7.3 PPR points a game and Gunnar Helm 5.7, 1.6 a game between them.

Cooper Kupp finished WR53 and Gunnar Helm TE31, which are two different ladders.

Cooper Kupp is a wide receiver and Gunnar Helm a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Cooper Kupp is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Gunnar Helm.

What would change the answer

0.8 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.