Start Jakobi Meyers or Darius Cooper? Week 9

Our Week 9 call

Start Jakobi Meyers over Darius Cooper in Week 9.

Market-based projections have Jakobi Meyers at 8.9 points and Darius Cooper at 7.8, a gap of 1.1. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. No player market is posted for Darius Cooper this week yet, so his 7.8 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 7 and 8 (9.2 and 6.5); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

Player markets imply 8.9 fantasy points for Jakobi Meyers, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.

The market-based projection for Jakobi Meyers is 40 receiving yards, 3-4 receptions and 0.3 touchdowns (12, 9 and 11 market sources).

No Week 9 player market is posted for Darius Cooper yet. His market-based projections were 9.2 and 6.5 points in Weeks 7 and 8, an average of 7.8, which stands in until his Week 9 market posts.

That puts Jakobi Meyers 1.1 points ahead of Darius Cooper on these projections.

Week 9 matchups

Jakobi Meyers and JAX visit BAL on Thursday at 8:15 PM ET.

BAL allowed 35.8 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 7 games, the 7th most in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 182 yards and 0.6 touchdowns a game against BAL.

Darius Cooper and PHI host NYG on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

NYG allowed 31.3 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 7 games, the 16th fewest in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 127 yards and 1.3 touchdowns a game against NYG.

By points allowed to the position, Jakobi Meyers has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Jakobi Meyers is listed as questionable with a hamstring injury.

Darius Cooper is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 9

Through Week 8, Jakobi Meyers played 80 percent of JAX snaps, drew 16 percent of the targets, earned 20 percent of the air yards and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

Jakobi Meyers, Week 4 against CIN: 50 of 61 snaps, 4 targets and 3 catches for 33 yards.

Jakobi Meyers, Week 5 against PHI: 61 of 72 snaps, 3 targets and 2 catches for 37 yards.

Jakobi Meyers, Week 6 against HOU: 53 of 71 snaps, 10 targets and 5 catches for 83 yards.

Jakobi Meyers, Week 8 against IND: 3 targets and 2 catches for 24 yards.

Through Week 8, Darius Cooper played 59 percent of PHI snaps, drew 10 percent of the targets, earned 15 percent of the air yards and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

Darius Cooper, Week 5 against JAX: 53 of 62 snaps, 3 targets and 2 catches for 71 yards, 1 touchdown.

Darius Cooper, Week 6 against CAR: 39 of 64 snaps, 2 targets and 1 catch for 9 yards.

Darius Cooper, Week 7 against DAL: 61 of 62 snaps, 3 targets and 1 catch for 17 yards.

Darius Cooper, Week 8 against WAS: 6 targets and 2 catches for 19 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Jakobi Meyers played 16 games for JAX and scored 175.8 PPR points, 11.0 a game, finishing WR32.

He caught 75 of 110 targets for 835 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets and 553 air yards.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

In 2025, Darius Cooper played 13 games for PHI and scored 18.2 PPR points, 1.4 a game.

He caught 9 of 11 targets for 92 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets and 70 air yards.

He was on the field for 19 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 9 calls

• Start Chris Godwin Jr. over Jakobi Meyers.
• Start Courtland Sutton over Jakobi Meyers.
• Start Jakobi Meyers over DeMario Douglas.
• Start Chris Godwin Jr. over Darius Cooper.
• Start Darius Cooper over Cooper Kupp.
• Start Courtland Sutton over Darius Cooper.