Should I start Khalil Shakir or Darius Cooper in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Khalil Shakir, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darius Cooper, and the board ranks him 180th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Khalil Shakir's market-based projection is 8.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Darius Cooper is 1.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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 8

Through Week 8, Khalil Shakir has been on the field for 64 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 38 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 80 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 4 of 6 targets for 34 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against BAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Darius Cooper has been on the field for 64 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 78 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 46 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 11.8 air yards.

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

In Week 7 against DAL he caught 1 of 3 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against WAS he caught 2 of 6 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Khalil Shakir played 16 games and scored 166.4 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR36.

He caught 72 of 95 targets for 719 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 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.

Khalil Shakir was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Khalil Shakir scored 10.4 PPR points a game and Darius Cooper 1.4, 9.0 a game between them.

Khalil Shakir had 84 more targets than Darius Cooper, 95 to 11.

Khalil Shakir had 627 more receiving yards than Darius Cooper, 719 to 92.

Their snap share this season is the same, 64 percent each.

This season Khalil Shakir holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Khalil Shakir is off in Week 7 and Darius Cooper in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.