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Should I start Rome Odunze or Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 6:21 AM ET.

Start Rome Odunze: he has been on the field this season, 96 percent of the snaps, and Omar Cooper Jr. has no snap on record yet. 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.

Rome Odunze

WR38 · CHI · bye 10

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Market-based projection
10.3 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
91

Omar Cooper Jr.

WR39 · NYJ · bye 13

Market-based projection
6.9 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
94

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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 Rome Odunze, and the board ranks him 91st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Omar Cooper Jr., and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Rome Odunze is 2.2 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 Omar Cooper Jr. at 2.2 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.

Rome Odunze's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Rome Odunze has been on the field for 85 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 2 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 38 targets have averaged 13.3 air yards.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 3 of 9 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Omar Cooper Jr. has 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 Rome Odunze played 12 games and scored 146.1 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR41.

He caught 44 of 90 targets for 661 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 7-8 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 15.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 82 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

Their target share this season is the same, 17 percent each.

Byes and availability

Rome Odunze is off in Week 10 and Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Both players in full

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