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Should I start Omar Cooper Jr. or Kyle Pitts Sr. in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 10:11 AM ET.

Start Omar Cooper Jr.: 64 percent of the snaps and 17 percent of the targets over their last game, against Kyle Pitts Sr.'s 55 percent of the snaps and 16 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.

Omar Cooper Jr.

WR39 · NYJ · bye 13

Market-based projection
6.9 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
99

Kyle Pitts Sr.

TE18 · ATL · bye 11

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Market-based projection
8.7 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
100

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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 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Pitts Sr., and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Omar Cooper Jr. at 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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 Kyle Pitts Sr. at 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Omar Cooper Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

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.

Through Week 7, Kyle Pitts Sr. has been on the field for 55 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 7 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 5 of 5 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. played 17 games and scored 210.8 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing TE2.

He caught 88 of 118 targets for 928 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Omar Cooper Jr. is a wide receiver and Kyle Pitts Sr. 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 Kyle Pitts Sr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Both players in full

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