Should I start Cooper Kupp or Tyjae Spears in Week 6?

Where the draft room has them

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cooper Kupp: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Tyjae Spears goes at ADP 12, an average pick of 128.8, and the board has him RB40 in tier 14.

His earliest recorded pick is 89 and his latest 155, a standard deviation of 15.0 picks.

He appears in 117 recorded drafts across the formats the consensus sample covers.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 80.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Cooper Kupp, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Tyjae Spears's market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 118th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 5

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.

Through Week 5, Tyjae Spears has been on the field for 44 percent of TEN snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 2.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against NYG he carried 3 times for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against HOU he carried 2 times for 0 yards, caught 9 of 9 targets for 28 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.

In 2025 Tyjae Spears played 13 games and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.

He carried 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 more yards.

That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 3-4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cooper Kupp was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyjae Spears scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Cooper Kupp 7.3, 1.3 a game between them.

Cooper Kupp finished WR53 and Tyjae Spears RB44, which are two different ladders.

Cooper Kupp is a wide receiver and Tyjae Spears a running back, 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 and Tyjae Spears in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Tyjae Spears is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Cooper Kupp has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.