Should I start Darius Cooper or Elic Ayomanor in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 4:11 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Darius Cooper over Elic Ayomanor
- Market projects
- 4.7
- recent weeks avg
- DAL D vs WR
- 35.5
- 12th most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 50%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 8%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 3.8
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 60%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 8%
- Through Week 6
Start Darius Cooper: 65 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Elic Ayomanor's 65 percent of the snaps and 6 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
2026 vs anytime td line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 284
WR · TEN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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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.
Our board does not carry Elic Ayomanor at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
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 Elic Ayomanor, 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 through Week 6
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 6, Elic Ayomanor has been on the field for 60 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 14 targets have averaged 11.1 air yards.
In Week 4 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 22 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against HOU he caught 1 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against IND he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 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 Elic Ayomanor played 16 games and scored 116.5 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing WR55.
He caught 41 of 89 targets for 515 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.
That came to 5.6 targets a game, a 46 percent catch rate and 12.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Elic Ayomanor was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Elic Ayomanor scored 7.3 PPR points a game and Darius Cooper 1.4, 5.9 a game between them.
Elic Ayomanor had 78 more targets than Darius Cooper, 89 to 11.
Elic Ayomanor had 423 more receiving yards than Darius Cooper, 515 to 92.
This season Elic Ayomanor holds the bigger snap share, 60 percent against 50 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 8 percent each.
Byes and availability
Darius Cooper is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Elic Ayomanor.
Both players in full
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