Should I start Omar Cooper Jr. or Devaughn Vele in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 3:06 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Devaughn Vele: 92 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Omar Cooper Jr.'s 76 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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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.
WR56 · NYJ · bye 13
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- Market-based projection
- 11.2 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 141
WR59 · NO · bye 8
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- Market-based projection
- 9.1 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 144
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Omar Cooper Jr., and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Devaughn Vele, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Omar Cooper Jr. at 2.1 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.
The market-based projection for Devaughn Vele is 2.0 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.
Omar Cooper Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Omar Cooper Jr. has been on the field for 76 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
His 16 targets have averaged 4.5 air yards.
In Week 7 against MIA he caught 5 of 5 targets for 115 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against LV he was not given the ball.
In Week 9 against KC he caught 8 of 11 targets for 58 yards and did not score.
Through Week 9, Devaughn Vele has been on the field for 92 percent of NO snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 18 of the offence's 75 third down targets, had 3 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 47 two minute targets.
His 52 targets have averaged 9.9 air yards.
In Week 6 against NYG he caught 3 of 6 targets for 42 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against PIT he caught 5 of 5 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 9 against CLE he caught 2 of 4 targets for 17 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
Omar Cooper Jr. is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Devaughn Vele played 13 games and scored 66.3 PPR points, 5.1 a game, finishing WR95.
He caught 25 of 39 targets for 293 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Devaughn Vele holds the bigger snap share, 92 percent against 76 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 18 percent each.
Byes and availability
Omar Cooper Jr. is off in Week 13 and Devaughn Vele in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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