Should I start Jalen Brooks or Darius Cooper in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Brooks, and the board ranks him 161st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darius Cooper, and the board ranks him 202nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jalen Brooks's market-based projection is 4.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 139th highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Darius Cooper is 0.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jalen Brooks has been on the field for 21 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 13.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 2 of 7 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 2 of 3 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Darius Cooper has been on the field for 52 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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jalen Brooks played 6 games and scored 6.1 PPR points, 1.0 a game.

He caught 3 of 6 targets for 51 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 1.0 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 17.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 32 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Darius Cooper was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Darius Cooper scored 1.4 PPR points a game and Jalen Brooks 1.0, 0.4 a game between them.

Darius Cooper had 5 more targets than Jalen Brooks, 11 to 6.

Darius Cooper had 41 more receiving yards than Jalen Brooks, 92 to 51.

This season Darius Cooper holds the bigger snap share, 52 percent against 21 percent.

This season Darius Cooper holds the bigger target share, 8 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Darius Cooper is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Jalen Brooks.

What would change the answer

Darius Cooper has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.