Should I start Makai Lemon or Darius Cooper in Week 6?
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.
Week 6 verdict
Start Makai Lemon over Darius Cooper
- Market projects
- 3.9
- fantasy pts
- CAR D vs WR
- 28.4
- 9th fewest to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 70%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 15%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 3.7
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 50%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 9%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
More fantasy football tools and rankings, all priced from the same board.
WR86 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market-based projection
- 7.2 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 211
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 25
WR87 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 5.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 214
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 25
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size316 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Makai Lemon: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 211th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Darius Cooper: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 214th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Makai Lemon 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.
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.
Makai Lemon's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Makai Lemon has been on the field for 70 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 22 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.
In Week 3 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 29 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LAR he caught 3 of 6 targets for 27 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against JAX he caught 5 of 7 targets for 43 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Darius Cooper has been on the field for 50 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 12.5 air yards.
In Week 3 against CHI he was not given the ball.
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.
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Their 2025 seasons
Makai Lemon is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Head to head
This season Makai Lemon holds the bigger snap share, 70 percent against 50 percent.
This season Makai Lemon holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 9 percent.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
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