Should I start Cooper Kupp or Theo Johnson in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cooper Kupp, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Theo Johnson, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Cooper Kupp is 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Theo Johnson's market-based projection is 1.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Cooper Kupp has been on the field for 71 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 78 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 49 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 8.1 air yards.

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.

In Week 9 against ARI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Theo Johnson has been on the field for 33 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 10.8 air yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against WAS he caught 2 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against PHI he was not given the ball.

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 Theo Johnson played 15 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 8.5 a game, finishing TE18.

He caught 45 of 74 targets for 528 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 4.9 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cooper Kupp was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Theo Johnson scored 8.5 PPR points a game and Cooper Kupp 7.3, 1.2 a game between them.

Cooper Kupp finished WR53 and Theo Johnson TE18, which are two different ladders.

Cooper Kupp is a wide receiver and Theo Johnson a tight end, 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 Theo Johnson.

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.