Should I start Cooper Kupp or Jalen Royals 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.
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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WR44 · SEA · bye 11
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- Market-based projection
- 6.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 130
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 14
WR47 · KC · bye unlisted
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- Market-based projection
- 5.2 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 size229 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.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Cooper Kupp: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Royals: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 139th 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 Royals's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 125th highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.
This season so far
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 4, Jalen Royals has been on the field for 31 percent of KC snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.
In Week 2 against IND he caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LV he caught 0 of 2 targets 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 Jalen Royals played 7 games and scored 2.4 PPR points, 0.3 a game.
He caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 2.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 9 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Cooper Kupp was available for 9 games more.
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Head to head
In 2025 Cooper Kupp scored 7.3 PPR points a game and Jalen Royals 0.3, 7.0 a game between them.
Cooper Kupp had 67 more targets than Jalen Royals, 70 to 3.
Cooper Kupp had 589 more receiving yards than Jalen Royals, 593 to 4.
This season Cooper Kupp holds the bigger snap share, 64 percent against 31 percent.
This season Cooper Kupp holds the bigger target share, 11 percent against 5 percent.
Byes and availability
Cooper Kupp is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Jalen Royals.
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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