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Brandin Cooks, WR Los Angeles Rams

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Brandin Cooks (WR - LAR)

Cooks has three straight top-12 finishes, including back-to-back finishes in the top 10 (in standard formats). He’s not a high-volume receiver, so he has finished in the No. 10 to No. 15 range in PPR formats in the same three-year span. The issue for Cooks is available volume. Working backward, he has received 114, 117, and 129 targets per season. The player he’s replacing, Sammy Watkins, averaged 4.7 targets per game for the Rams last season, which equates to 75 or so targets for a full 16-game season. For the 12 games where Watkins, Robert Woods, and Cooper Kupp were all healthy, Watkins saw 13 percent of the targets, while Woods saw 23 percent, and Kupp saw 19 percent. So, to live up to his ADP, not only will Cooks have to take over Watkins’ role, he’s going to have to pull three to four percent from both Woods and Kupp, or find those targets elsewhere.

General Info

Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 189 lbs
DOB: 09-25-1993

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Most Recent News

Friday, October 26, 2018, 7:08pm

Rams WR Cooper Kupp (knee, doubtful) missed practice all week and is doubtful for Week 8. Josh Reynolds played 84% of the snaps last week but only saw one target. Whether or not Kupp is out, Brandin Cooks and Robert Woods will be great plays against the Packers (No. 29 in WR aFPA).

Scouting Report

Posted by Anthony Stalter

Friday, November 16, 2018 - 1:17pm

Week 11 vs. Kansas City Chiefs

Brandin Cooks caught 10-of-12 targets for 100 yards in the Rams’ Week 19 win over the Seahawks and also added a nine-yard rushing touchdown off a jet sweep. With Cooper Kupp out for the season with a torn ACL, Cooks could routinely see 10-plus targets every week now. The Rams host the Chiefs on Monday night and while Kansas City ranks a surprising eighth versus fantasy receivers this season, the betting total for that matchup is sitting at 63.5 points. That’s one of the highest over/unders you’ll ever see in an NFL game, making Cooks and some of his teammates must-starts. Ranked as our WR11 for Week 11, view Cooks as a low-end WR1 for Monday night.

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2018 Strength of Schedule - LAR
W1	W2	W3	W4	W5	W6	W7	W8	W9	W10	W11	W12	W13	W14	W15	W16	W17
22 @OAK	6 ARI	20 LAC	4 MIN	18 @SEA	12 @DEN	24 @SF	29 GB	32 @NO	18 SEA	8 KC	BYE	21 @DET	14 @CHI	26 PHI	6 @ARI	24 SF

Schedule difficulty based on schedule-adjusted, positional defensive ranking. Top DEF = 1, bottom DEF = 32.

2018 Game Stats
Week	Opp	Rec	RecYds	RecTD	Tgts	YPR	RuAtt	RuYds	RuTD	Fum	YPC	STD	PPR	Snaps	%
1	@OAK	5	87	0	8	17.40	1	6	0	0	6.00	9.3	14.3	61/63	96.8%
2	ARI	7	159	0	9	22.71	0	0	0	0	-	15.9	22.9	72/72	100.0%
3	LAC	7	90	0	8	12.86	0	0	0	0	-	9.0	16.0	74/77	96.1%
4	MIN	7	116	1	8	16.57	1	10	0	0	10.00	18.6	25.6	52/55	94.5%
5	@SEA	0	0	0	0	-	0	0	0	0	-	0.0	0.0	28/66	42.4%
6	@DEN	2	53	0	6	26.50	0	0	0	0	-	5.3	7.3	68/74	91.9%
7	@SF	4	64	1	5	16.00	1	7	0	0	7.00	13.1	17.1	50/61	82.0%
8	GB	3	74	0	8	24.67	2	9	0	0	4.50	8.3	11.3	75/78	96.2%
9	@NO	6	114	1	8	19.00	0	0	0	0	-	17.4	23.4	59/60	98.3%
10	SEA	10	100	0	12	10.00	1	9	1	0	9.00	16.9	26.9	63/65	96.9%
11	KC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Per game		5.10	85.70	0.30	7.20	16.80	0.60	4.10	0.10	0	6.83	11.38	16.48	60.20/67.10	89.52%
Totals		51	857	3	72	16.80	6	41	1	0	6.83	113.8	164.8	602/671	89.52%

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