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

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Royals, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darius Cooper, and the board ranks him 218th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jalen Royals's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 132nd highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Darius Cooper is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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 Royals has been on the field for 42 percent of KC snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LV he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 2 of 4 targets for 24 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 Royals played 7 games and scored 2.4 PPR points, 0.3 a game.

He caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 2.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 9 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 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Darius Cooper scored 1.4 PPR points a game and Jalen Royals 0.3, 1.1 a game between them.

Darius Cooper had 8 more targets than Jalen Royals, 11 to 3.

Darius Cooper had 88 more receiving yards than Jalen Royals, 92 to 4.

This season Darius Cooper holds the bigger snap share, 52 percent against 42 percent.

This season Darius Cooper holds the bigger target share, 8 percent against 7 percent.

Byes and availability

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

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.