Should I start Quentin Johnston or Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 6:16 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Quentin Johnston: 81 percent of the snaps and 11 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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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.
WR62 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 7.4 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 157
WR63 · NYJ · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 2-2
- Market-based projection
- 9.3 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 158
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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 Quentin Johnston, and the board ranks him 157th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Omar Cooper Jr., and the board ranks him 158th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Quentin Johnston is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Quentin Johnston's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Quentin Johnston has been on the field for 81 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 26 targets have averaged 13.0 air yards.
In Week 4 against SEA he carried 1 time for -4 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 44 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against KC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 57 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against LAR he caught 4 of 4 targets for 37 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 Quentin Johnston played 14 games and scored 171.2 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR34.
He caught 51 of 85 targets for 735 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.
That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 77 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 Quentin Johnston holds the bigger snap share, 81 percent against 64 percent.
This season Omar Cooper Jr. holds the bigger target share, 17 percent against 14 percent.
Byes and availability
Quentin Johnston is off in Week 7 and Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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