Should I start Zay Flowers or Darius Cooper in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zay Flowers, and the board ranks him 33rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darius Cooper, and the board ranks him 166th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Zay Flowers's market-based projection is 10.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 19th highest figure of the 175 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, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 65 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 58 targets have averaged 8.2 air yards.

In Week 6 against CLE he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 6 of 11 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 8 of 11 targets for 137 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 0 of 5 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Darius Cooper has been on the field for 59 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 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.

He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 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.

Zay Flowers was available for 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Zay Flowers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Darius Cooper 1.4, 12.9 a game between them.

Zay Flowers had 107 more targets than Darius Cooper, 118 to 11.

Zay Flowers had 1119 more receiving yards than Darius Cooper, 1211 to 92.

This season Zay Flowers holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 59 percent.

This season Zay Flowers holds the bigger target share, 30 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Zay Flowers is off in Week 13 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.