Should I start Cooper Kupp or Jalen Brooks in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Cooper Kupp over Jalen Brooks
- Market projects
- 6.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 64%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 11%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 4.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 15%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Cooper Kupp, 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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WR45 · SEA · bye 11
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- Market-based projection
- 6.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 133
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 20
WR49 · ARI · bye unlisted
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- Market-based projection
- 4.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size316 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 Cooper Kupp: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Brooks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Cooper Kupp, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Jalen Brooks's market-based projection is 4.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 132nd highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.
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, Jalen Brooks has been on the field for 15 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 37 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 14.3 air yards.
In Week 3 against SF he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.
In Week 5 against DET he caught 2 of 7 targets for 16 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 Jalen Brooks played 6 games and scored 6.1 PPR points, 1.0 a game.
He caught 3 of 6 targets for 51 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 1.0 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 17.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 32 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Cooper Kupp was available for 10 games more.
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Head to head
In 2025 Cooper Kupp scored 7.3 PPR points a game and Jalen Brooks 1.0, 6.3 a game between them.
Cooper Kupp had 64 more targets than Jalen Brooks, 70 to 6.
Cooper Kupp had 542 more receiving yards than Jalen Brooks, 593 to 51.
This season Cooper Kupp holds the bigger snap share, 64 percent against 15 percent.
This season Cooper Kupp holds the bigger target share, 11 percent against 4 percent.
Byes and availability
Cooper Kupp is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Jalen Brooks.
What would change the answer
Cooper Kupp has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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