Should I start Omar Cooper Jr. or Matthew Stafford in Week 8?
Updated Oct 28, 9:21 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Matthew Stafford: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Omar Cooper Jr.'s 64 percent of the snaps and 17 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.
WR35 · NYJ · bye 13
- Market-based projection
- 9.4 pts a game
QB11 · LAR · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 4-3
- Overall rank
- 86
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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 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Matthew Stafford, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
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.
The market-based projection for Matthew Stafford is 17.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Matthew Stafford'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, Matthew Stafford has been on the field for 98 percent of LAR snaps, dropped back 290 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 43 of 290 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.
In Week 5 against BUF he completed 40 of 54 passes for 383 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 6 against ARI he completed 25 of 33 passes for 222 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 7 against LV he completed 23 of 29 passes for 195 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception.
Their 2025 seasons
Omar Cooper Jr. is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Matthew Stafford played 17 games and scored 358.4 PPR points, 21.1 a game, finishing QB3.
He threw for 4707 yards on 597 attempts with 46 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 1 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 35.1 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Omar Cooper Jr. is a wide receiver and Matthew Stafford a quarterback, 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 Matthew Stafford in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Matthew Stafford has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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