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Should I start Dontayvion Wicks or Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 5:01 PM ET.

Start Dontayvion Wicks: 79 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Omar Cooper Jr.'s 43 percent of the snaps and 15 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.

WR67 · PHI · bye 10

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Market-based projection
6.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
190

WR69 · NYJ · bye 13

Market-based projection
3.9 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
192

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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 Dontayvion Wicks, and the board ranks him 190th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Omar Cooper Jr., and the board ranks him 192nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Dontayvion Wicks is 1.4 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.

The market has Omar Cooper Jr. at 1.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 10 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Dontayvion Wicks has been on the field for 79 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 16 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 32 targets have averaged 13.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAR he caught 3 of 5 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against JAX he caught 5 of 8 targets for 63 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CAR he caught 2 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Omar Cooper Jr. has been on the field for 43 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 9 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 12 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 11.6 air yards.

In Week 1 against TEN he caught 1 of 1 target for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NE he caught 6 of 7 targets for 103 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Dontayvion Wicks played 14 games and scored 75.8 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing WR83.

He caught 30 of 46 targets for 332 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 65 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Omar Cooper Jr. is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Dontayvion Wicks holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 43 percent.

This season Dontayvion Wicks holds the bigger target share, 17 percent against 15 percent.

Byes and availability

Dontayvion Wicks is off in Week 10 and Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

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