Should I start Matthew Stafford or Darius Cooper in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Matthew Stafford's market-based projection is 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 30th highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based projection.

Darius Cooper's market-based projection is 9.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 94th highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Matthew Stafford, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darius Cooper, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Matthew Stafford has been on the field for 98 percent of LAR snaps, dropped back 260 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 40 of 260 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 4 against PHI he completed 32 of 51 passes for 317 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 11 yards.

In Week 5 against BUF he completed 40 of 54 passes for 383 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

In Week 6 against ARI he completed 25 of 33 passes for 222 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

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 Matthew Stafford played 17 games and scored 358.4 PPR points, 21.1 a game, finishing QB3.

He threw for 4707 yards on 597 attempts with 46 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 1 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 35.1 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 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.

Matthew Stafford was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Matthew Stafford scored 21.1 PPR points a game and Darius Cooper 1.4, 19.7 a game between them.

Matthew Stafford is a quarterback and Darius Cooper a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Matthew Stafford is off in Week 11 and Darius Cooper in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

6.7 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.