Should I start Jakobi Meyers or Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Jakobi Meyers's market-based projection is 9.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Omar Cooper Jr.'s market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 93rd highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jakobi Meyers, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Omar Cooper Jr., and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 80 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against HOU he caught 5 of 10 targets for 83 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 Jakobi Meyers played 16 games and scored 175.8 PPR points, 11.0 a game, finishing WR32.

He caught 75 of 110 targets for 835 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 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 Jakobi Meyers holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 64 percent.

This season Omar Cooper Jr. holds the bigger target share, 17 percent against 16 percent.

Byes and availability

Jakobi Meyers is off in Week 7 and Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jakobi Meyers is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.