Should I start Garrett Wilson or Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Garrett Wilson, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Omar Cooper Jr., and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Garrett Wilson is 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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 2.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Garrett Wilson has been on the field for 90 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 51 targets have averaged 9.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against CLE he caught 7 of 11 targets for 104 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 2 of 3 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Omar Cooper Jr. has been on the field for 64 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 9 third down targets and had 1 of its 3 chances inside the five.

His 5 targets have averaged 10.2 air yards.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 5 of 5 targets for 115 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Garrett Wilson played 7 games and scored 99.5 PPR points, 14.2 a game, finishing WR62.

He caught 36 of 59 targets for 395 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 8.4 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 89 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 Garrett Wilson holds the bigger snap share, 90 percent against 64 percent.

This season Garrett Wilson holds the bigger target share, 26 percent against 17 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 13, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.