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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

Rams sign WR Brandin Cooks to five-year extension

Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 6:40pm

ESPN - [Full Article]

The Los Angeles Rams have signed Brandin Cooks to a five-year contract extension, the team announced Tuesday.

The deal is worth $80 million, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

"Brandin Cooks has shown himself to be a class act on and off the field since the first day he joined our team," HC Sean McVay said in a statement. "He's a proven professional in this league and signing him to a long-term contract was always our goal."

Fantasy Impact:

Acquired in an offseason trade with the New England Patriots, Cooks, 24, has yet to play a snap for the Rams, but coach Sean McVay liked what he saw from the receiver throughout the offseason program. Cooks said he knew he wanted to sign a long-term contract shortly after arriving at the team's training facility and observing the culture established by McVay, the story said.

Scouting Report

Posted by Anthony Stalter

Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 6:36pm

Week 3 vs. Los Angeles Chargers

Brandin Cooks caught 7-of-9 passes for 159 yards in the Rams’ Week 2 win over the Cardinals. As great of a day as it was from a yardage standpoint, it could have been a bigger game for Cooks had Jared Goff not underthrown a potential touchdown pass (Cooks had to work back to the ball instead of catching it in stride). It’s clear through two weeks that Sean McVay and Goff will get Cooks more involved than they did former deep threat Sammy Watkins. Ranked as our No. 15 WR for the Rams’ matchup with the Chargers this Sunday, consider Cooks a solid WR2 option.

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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
26 @OAK	23 ARI	11 LAC	6 MIN	18 @SEA	4 @DEN	20 @SF	29 GB	14 @NO	18 SEA	32 KC	BYE	19 @DET	9 @CHI	28 PHI	23 @ARI	20 SF

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

2018 Game Stats
Week	Opp	Rec	RecYds	Tgts	YPR	RuAtt	RuYds	YPC	STD	PPR	Snaps	%
1	@OAK	5	87	8	17.40	1	6	6.00	9.3	14.3	61/63	96.8%
2	ARI	7	159	9	22.71	0	0	-	15.9	22.9	72/72	100.0%
Per game		6.00	123.00	8.50	20.50	0.50	3.00	6.00	12.60	18.60	66.50/67.50	98.42%
Totals		12	246	17	20.50	1	6	6.00	25.2	37.2	133/135	98.42%

Previous Games vs. LAC
Season	Week	Opp	Rec	RecYds	RecTD	Tgts	YPR	RuAtt	RuYds	RuTD	Fum	YPC	STD	PPR	Snaps	%
2017	8	LAC	5	26	0	8	5.20	0	0	0	0	-	2.6	7.6	82/86	95.35%
2016	4	@LAC	3	31	0	6	10.33	0	0	0	0	-	3.1	6.1	50/73	68.49%
Average			4.00	28.50	0.00	7.00	7.77	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.85	6.85	66.00/79.50	81.92%

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