Should I start Jordan Mason or Cooper Kupp in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Mason, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cooper Kupp, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jordan Mason is 3.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 4 market sources. 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 market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 114th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Jordan Mason's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 1, Jordan Mason has been on the field for 45 percent of MIN snaps, taken 48 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets and had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five.

In Week 1 against GB he carried 15 times for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Cooper Kupp has been on the field for 69 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 5 of 10 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jordan Mason played 16 games and scored 128.9 PPR points, 8.1 a game, finishing RB36.

He carried 159 times for 758 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 51 more yards.

That came to 9.9 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 44 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Jordan Mason scored 8.1 PPR points a game and Cooper Kupp 7.3, 0.7 a game between them.

Jordan Mason finished RB36 and Cooper Kupp WR53, which are two different ladders.

Jordan Mason is a running back and Cooper Kupp a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jordan Mason is off in Week 6 and Cooper Kupp in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jordan Mason is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Jordan Mason has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.