Should I start Jalen Nailor or Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 8:06 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Omar Cooper Jr.: 72 percent of the snaps and 8 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jalen Nailor's 62 percent of the snaps and 12 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.
WR72 · LV · bye 13
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- Market-based projection
- 4.3 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 180
WR74 · NYJ · bye 13
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- Market-based projection
- 9.3 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 182
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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 Jalen Nailor, and the board ranks him 180th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Omar Cooper Jr., and the board ranks him 182nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Jalen Nailor is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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 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.
Jalen Nailor's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Jalen Nailor has been on the field for 54 percent of LV snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 42 two minute targets.
His 24 targets have averaged 11.7 air yards.
In Week 6 against BUF he caught 1 of 4 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against LAR he caught 2 of 5 targets for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against NYJ he caught 4 of 4 targets for 38 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 8, Omar Cooper Jr. has been on the field for 72 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 18 third down targets, had 1 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.
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.
In Week 8 against LV he was not given the ball.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jalen Nailor played 17 games and scored 100.7 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing WR61.
He caught 29 of 53 targets for 444 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 55 percent catch rate and 15.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 65 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 Omar Cooper Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 72 percent against 54 percent.
This season Jalen Nailor holds the bigger target share, 10 percent against 8 percent.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 13, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Both players in full
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