Should I start Omar Cooper Jr. or Gunnar Helm in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 7:11 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Omar Cooper Jr.: 76 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Gunnar Helm's 73 percent of the snaps and 14 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR56 · NYJ · bye 13
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- Market-based projection
- 11.2 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 141
TE20 · TEN · bye 9
2026 vs anytime td line 0-8
- Market-based projection
- 5.3 pts a game
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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 Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Omar Cooper Jr. at 2.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 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.
Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 104th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.
Omar Cooper Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
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 8, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 75 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 38 two minute targets.
His 26 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.
In Week 6 against IND he was not given the ball.
In Week 7 against CLE he caught 3 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against CIN he caught 5 of 9 targets for 76 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 Gunnar Helm played 16 games and scored 91.7 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE31.
He caught 44 of 55 targets for 357 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 8.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Omar Cooper Jr. is a wide receiver and Gunnar Helm a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Omar Cooper Jr. is off in Week 13 and Gunnar Helm in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Omar Cooper Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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