Should I start Cooper Kupp or Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 7?
Updated Oct 23, 12:16 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Cooper Kupp: his market-based projection is 1.9 points a game ahead of Pierre Strong Jr.'s this season.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR49 · SEA · bye 11
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- Market-based projection
- 6.2 pts a game
RB44 · GB · bye 11
- Market-based projection
- 4.3 pts a game
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The gap
- Price difference1.9 points a game
- Board size323 draftable players
Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from the market projection.
The market-based projections
Cooper Kupp's market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 133rd highest figure of the 222 players with a market-based projection.
Pierre Strong Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 153rd highest figure of the 222 players with a market-based projection.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Cooper Kupp, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Pierre Strong Jr., and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.
This season through Week 6
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.
Through Week 6, Pierre Strong Jr. has been on the field for 49 percent of GB snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 30 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 5 against CHI he carried 5 times for 7 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against DAL he carried 11 times for 28 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 39 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.
The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong Jr. in the last completed season.
Side by side
Cooper Kupp is a wide receiver and Pierre Strong Jr. a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
What would change the answer
1.9 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.
The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.
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