Fantasy Football Lineup Advice: Start or Sit Amari Cooper? (Week 4)

Start or sit decisions can be excruciating. While it feels great to make the right call and cruise to fantasy glory, it hurts just as much when you have someone erupt while on your bench. You can use our Who Should I Start? tool to gauge advice from fantasy football experts as you make your lineup decisions. And you can also sync your fantasy football league for free using our My Playbook tool for custom advice, rankings, and analysis.

Let’s take a look at a few polarizing players for Week 4 of fantasy football and what the Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR) advise. Here is our Week 4 fantasy football start/sit advice for Amari Cooper.

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Fantasy Football Start/Sit Advice: Start or Sit Amari Cooper?

Amari Cooper: Cooper has looked like a throwback version of himself through three games as the WR13 in fantasy points per game. He’s seventh in target share (30.7%) and first in air yard share (50.3%) while sitting at second in weighted opportunity among wide receivers (minimum five targets). He’s PFF’s 14th highest graded wide receiver, ranking 17th in yards per route run (minimum ten targets). He’ll run nearly 80% of his routes against A.J. Terrell and Casey Hayward. Terrell has been roasted with a 72.7% catch rate and 133.9 passer rating. Hayward has also shown his age with a 78.6% catch rate and 112.8 passer rating. Terrell and Hayward have operated in zone coverage on 61% of their defensive snaps. Cooper has seen 48.1% of his target volume against zone, ranking 12th in yards per route run against the coverage type (minimum five targets). Cooper is a strong WR2.