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Should I start Tyler Huntley or Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 8:06 AM ET.

Tyler Huntley is the start on the latest market-based projection, 16.8 points to Omar Cooper Jr.'s 6.9, the market figures from their Week 7 games. The next week's markets are not all posted yet, and this answer reorders when they are. What follows is how each has been used this season.

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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.

Tyler Huntley

QB13 · BAL · bye 13

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

Omar Cooper Jr.

WR40 · NYJ · bye 13

Market-based projection
6.9 pts a game Wk 7 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 Tyler Huntley, 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 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tyler Huntley is 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback'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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Tyler Huntley has been on the field for 83 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 125 times and thrown 6.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 125 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 5 against ATL he completed 24 of 32 passes for 201 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 22 yards.

In Week 6 against CLE he completed 19 of 31 passes for 165 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 28 yards.

In Week 7 against CIN he completed 23 of 34 passes for 298 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 12 yards.

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 Tyler Huntley played 5 games and scored 40.1 PPR points, 8.0 a game, finishing QB47.

He threw for 426 yards on 67 attempts with 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 151 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 13.4 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 26 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

Tyler Huntley is a quarterback 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

Both are off in Week 13, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Both players in full

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