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Should I start Darius Cooper or Demarcus Robinson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 6:11 AM ET.

Start Darius Cooper: 65 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Demarcus Robinson's 49 percent of the snaps and 11 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

WR · PHI · bye 10

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Overall rank
284

WR · SF · bye 8

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Overall rank
286

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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 Darius Cooper, and the board ranks him 284th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Demarcus Robinson, and the board ranks him 286th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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

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

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Darius Cooper has been on the field for 50 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 2 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAR he caught 3 of 7 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against JAX he caught 2 of 3 targets for 71 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against CAR he caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Through Week 2, Demarcus Robinson has been on the field for 49 percent of SF snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 12.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against LAR he caught 2 of 3 targets for 50 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 2 against MIA he caught 3 of 3 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Darius Cooper played 13 games and scored 18.2 PPR points, 1.4 a game.

He caught 9 of 11 targets for 92 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 82 percent catch rate and 10.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 19 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Demarcus Robinson played 14 games and scored 58.2 PPR points, 4.2 a game, finishing WR99.

He caught 22 of 35 targets for 276 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 2-3 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 13 yards a catch.

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

Demarcus Robinson was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Demarcus Robinson scored 4.2 PPR points a game and Darius Cooper 1.4, 2.8 a game between them.

Demarcus Robinson had 24 more targets than Darius Cooper, 35 to 11.

Demarcus Robinson had 184 more receiving yards than Darius Cooper, 276 to 92.

This season Darius Cooper holds the bigger snap share, 50 percent against 49 percent.

This season Demarcus Robinson holds the bigger target share, 11 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Darius Cooper is off in Week 10 and Demarcus Robinson in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Demarcus Robinson is listed as ir on the injury report.

Both players in full

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