Najee Harris or Cooper Kupp: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Najee Harris: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 129th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Najee Harris is 5.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 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 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 125th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Najee Harris has been on the field for 18 percent of NYG snaps, taken 25 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 26 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 2 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against TEN he carried 9 times for 52 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against ARI he carried 9 times for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he carried 5 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Najee Harris played 3 games and scored 11.6 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing RB105.

He carried 15 times for 61 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 3 targets for 25 more yards.

That came to 5.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 1.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 21 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 13 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Cooper Kupp scored 7.3 PPR points a game and Najee Harris 3.9, 3.5 a game between them.

Najee Harris finished RB105 and Cooper Kupp WR53, which are two different ladders.

Najee Harris 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

Cooper Kupp is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Najee Harris.

What would change the answer

Najee Harris is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.