Should I start Ted Hurst or Darius Cooper in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ted Hurst, and the board ranks him 169th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darius Cooper, and the board ranks him 170th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Ted Hurst is 0.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 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 11 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Ted Hurst has been on the field for 59 percent of TB snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 16.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against GB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DAL he was not given the ball.

In Week 6 against PIT he caught 3 of 6 targets for 40 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

Ted Hurst 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 Ted Hurst holds the bigger snap share, 59 percent against 52 percent.

This season Ted Hurst holds the bigger target share, 12 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.