Should I start Sam LaPorta or Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 10:46 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Sam LaPorta: 93 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Omar Cooper Jr.'s 76 percent of the snaps and 18 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.
TE2 · DET · bye 6
2026 vs anytime td line 3-5
- Market-based projection
- 11.1 pts a game
WR41 · NYJ · bye 13
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- Market-based projection
- 11.2 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 97
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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 Sam LaPorta, and the board ranks him 18th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Omar Cooper Jr., and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Sam LaPorta's market-based projection is 11.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 15th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.
The market has Omar Cooper Jr. at 2.1 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.
Omar Cooper Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Sam LaPorta has been on the field for 90 percent of DET snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 2 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 49 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.
In Week 7 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against MIN he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 33 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against MIA he caught 4 of 5 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
Through Week 9, Omar Cooper Jr. has been on the field for 76 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
His 16 targets have averaged 4.5 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.
In Week 9 against KC he caught 8 of 11 targets for 58 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Sam LaPorta played 9 games and scored 106.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing TE27.
He caught 40 of 49 targets for 489 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 5.4 targets a game, a 82 percent catch rate and 12.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 90 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.
Side by side
Sam LaPorta is a tight end and Omar Cooper Jr. a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Sam LaPorta is off in Week 6 and Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Omar Cooper Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 10 on the board
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