Should I start Darius Cooper or Theo Wease 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.
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.
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WR93 · PHI · bye 10
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- Market-based projection
- 5.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 226
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 32
WR94 · LAC · bye 7
- Overall rank
- 227
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 32
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
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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 Darius Cooper: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Theo Wease: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 227th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Darius Cooper is 0.4 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.
The market-based projection for Theo Wease is 0.3 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.
Darius Cooper's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
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.
Through Week 5, Theo Wease has been on the field for 64 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 7 third down targets and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 12.0 air yards.
In Week 5 against DEN he caught 1 of 1 target for 16 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Theo Wease played 3 games and scored 25.9 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing WR143.
He caught 6 of 10 targets for 139 yards and 1 touchdown, with 1 red zone target.
That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 23.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 32 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Darius Cooper was available for 10 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Theo Wease scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Darius Cooper 1.4, 7.2 a game between them.
Darius Cooper had 1 more targets than Theo Wease, 11 to 10.
Theo Wease had 47 more receiving yards than Darius Cooper, 139 to 92.
This season Theo Wease holds the bigger snap share, 64 percent against 50 percent.
This season Darius Cooper holds the bigger target share, 9 percent against 5 percent.
Byes and availability
Darius Cooper is off in Week 10 and Theo Wease in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
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