Should I start Ja'Kobi Lane or Cooper Kupp in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ja'Kobi Lane, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cooper Kupp, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Ja'Kobi Lane's market-based projection is 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 70th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Cooper Kupp is 1.8 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 7

Through Week 7, Ja'Kobi Lane has been on the field for 54 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 29 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.

In Week 1 against IND he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Cooper Kupp has been on the field for 68 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

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

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.

Their 2025 seasons

Ja'Kobi Lane 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 Cooper Kupp holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 54 percent.

This season Ja'Kobi Lane holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 13 percent.

Byes and availability

Ja'Kobi Lane is off in Week 13 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.