Should I start Cooper Kupp or Jeremy McNichols in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 6:36 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Jeremy McNichols: Questionable to IR (Foot) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Jeremy McNichols: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Cooper Kupp: 77 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jeremy McNichols's 19 percent of the snaps and 24 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR65 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-6
- Market-based projection
- 7.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 149
RB50 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 1-16
- Market-based projection
- 5.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 150
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Cooper Kupp, and the board ranks him 149th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Cooper Kupp is 1.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.
The market-based projection for Jeremy McNichols is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back'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 8
Through Week 8, Cooper Kupp has been on the field for 68 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 43 two minute targets.
His 30 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.
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.
In Week 8 against CHI he caught 1 of 3 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 8, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 19 percent of WAS snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 1.0 air yards.
In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against PHI he carried 5 times for 21 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 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 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.
He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.
That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 33 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jeremy McNichols was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Cooper Kupp scored 7.3 PPR points a game and Jeremy McNichols 4.3, 3.1 a game between them.
Cooper Kupp finished WR53 and Jeremy McNichols RB58, which are two different ladders.
Cooper Kupp is a wide receiver and Jeremy McNichols a running back, 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 and Jeremy McNichols in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jeremy McNichols is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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