Should I start Marvin Harrison Jr. or Cooper Kupp in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 6:01 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Cooper Kupp: 77 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Marvin Harrison Jr.'s 21 percent of the snaps and 14 percent of the targets. 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR32 · HOU · bye 8
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- Market-based projection
- 6.8 pts a game
WR65 · SEA · bye 11
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- Market-based projection
- 7.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 147
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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 Marvin Harrison Jr., and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 19; 2QB: ADP 41.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Cooper Kupp, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Marvin Harrison Jr.'s market-based projection is 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Cooper Kupp is 1.7 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.
Cooper Kupp's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Marvin Harrison Jr. has been on the field for 21 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 20.5 air yards.
In Week 7 against NYG he caught 1 of 4 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Marvin Harrison Jr. played 12 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR49.
He caught 41 of 73 targets for 608 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 14.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 72 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.
Cooper Kupp was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Marvin Harrison Jr. scored 10.7 PPR points a game and Cooper Kupp 7.3, 3.3 a game between them.
Marvin Harrison Jr. finished WR49 that year and Cooper Kupp WR53.
Marvin Harrison Jr. had 3 more targets than Cooper Kupp, 73 to 70.
Marvin Harrison Jr. had 15 more receiving yards than Cooper Kupp, 608 to 593.
This season Cooper Kupp holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 21 percent.
This season Marvin Harrison Jr. holds the bigger target share, 14 percent against 12 percent.
Byes and availability
Marvin Harrison Jr. is off in Week 8 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.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
- Is Marvin Harrison Jr. playing Week 9?
- Is Cooper Kupp playing Week 9?
- Texans depth chart
- Seahawks depth chart
- Week 9 WR rankings
- Week 9 fantasy rankings
- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
- Week 9 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 9
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 9 kicker rankings
- Week 9 defense rankings
