Should I start Ty Johnson or Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 8?
Updated Oct 28, 5:21 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Omar Cooper Jr.: 64 percent of the snaps and 17 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Ty Johnson's 24 percent of the snaps and 2 percent of the carries. 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.
RB22 · BUF · bye 7
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- Overall rank
- 59
WR31 · NYJ · bye 13
- Market-based projection
- 9.3 pts a game
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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 Ty Johnson, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Omar Cooper Jr., and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Ty Johnson is 8.1 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Omar Cooper Jr.'s market-based projection is 9.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.
Ty Johnson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 6, Ty Johnson has been on the field for 23 percent of BUF snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 14 two minute targets.
His 12 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 72 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against LV he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 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 Ty Johnson played 17 games and scored 100.3 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing RB47.
He carried 50 times for 200 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 33 targets for 263 more yards.
That came to 2.9 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 29 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
Ty Johnson is a running back 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
Ty Johnson is off in Week 7 and Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Ty Johnson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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