5′10″, 190 lb · age 33 · Oregon State · 2014 draft, round 1
Week 4 stats
Sun Oct 4, vs DEN: Brandin Cooks was targeted once without a catch on 12% of snaps.
Stats through week 4; the week 5 projection below. Checked Oct 8, 2026. Full game log.
Through 1 game this season Brandin Cooks is averaging 0.0 receptions and 0 receiving yards on 12% of snaps, against 1.7 receptions and 21 receiving yards over 17 games last season. For week 5 the model projects 1.7 PPR points, WR126 this week.
Week 5 projection
PPR points
1.7
WR126 this week
Receptions
0.6
1.1 below his 2025 average
Receiving yards
10
His snap share has fallen from last season. The projection is pulled down to reflect the smaller role rather than last year’s.
What a realistic week looks like
The projection is the center of this, not a prediction of one number. Eight weeks in ten he lands between 0 and 2 receptions. The shaded bars are that range. This distribution is calibrated — predicted against realized agrees within 0.012 in every decile across 49,202 checks.
Brandin Cooks snap share, game by game
Snap shareTarget share
Role is the most repeatable thing a player has. Snap share reproduces at 0.96 between halves of a season; receptions manage 0.89 and touchdowns 0.56. When these lines move, production follows — not the other way round. Snap share leaders.
Game log
Game
Opp
Snap share
Target share
Tgt
Rec
Rec yds
TD
We said
26 wk5
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
0.6 projected
26 wk4
DEN
12%
3.4%
1
0
0
0
—
25 wk20
DEN
58%
15.4%
6
2
20
0
—
25 wk19
JAX
48%
14.3%
5
3
58
0
—
25 wk17
PHI
51%
18.2%
6
4
101
0
—
25 wk16
CLE
24%
5.6%
1
0
0
0
—
25 wk15
NE
34%
11.5%
3
0
0
0
—
25 wk14
CIN
36%
0.0%
0
0
0
0
—
25 wk13
PIT
23%
4.3%
1
1
13
0
—
25 wk10
CAR
50%
0.0%
0
0
0
0
—
25 wk9
LA
56%
12.5%
3
2
16
0
—
“We said” is the projection as it was published that week, stored before the game, with the miss beside it. Re-running today’s model on a past week would grade a model that did not exist when the number went out, so those weeks show a dash instead.
How often he has actually done it
Rates over his last 17 games. A projection says what to expect on average; this says how often the thing you actually need has happened.
Outcome
Games it happened
How often
3+ receptions
6 of 17
35%
5+ receptions
0 of 17
0%
7+ receptions
0 of 17
0%
50+ receiving yards
2 of 17
12%
75+ receiving yards
1 of 17
6%
100+ receiving yards
1 of 17
6%
Scored a touchdown
0 of 17
0%
Brandin Cooks 2026 stats
Against the rest of his career
2026 so far (1 game)
2016–2025 (156 games)
Catches per game
0.0
4.1
Receiving yards per game
0.0
55.7
Target share
3.4%
18.3%
Brandin Cooks 2025 stats
In 2025 Brandin Cooks had 29 catches for 357 yards over 17 games, on 54% of snaps.
Season by season
Role is the part of a player that carries. Snap share repeats at 0.98 between halves of a season and target share at 0.96, so this line is a far better guide to what comes next than a points total would be.
Per-game rates over the games he appeared in. Opportunity is what reproduces — carries repeat at 0.97 between halves of a season and target share at 0.92 — while the yards it turns into are a separate and noisier question.
Receiving yards per game reproduce at 0.86 between halves of a season, against 0.61 for yards per catch — which is why this is modeled directly rather than as catches times yards per catch.
The least predictable thing a skill player does. Touchdown rate repeats at 0.55 between halves of a season against 0.89 for catches, so a spike here is mostly not a property of the player. Per game over the games he appeared in, so a season in progress is comparable to a finished one.
11 seasons of usage, 2016–2026 · per-game rates over games he appeared in · snap counts are from official play-by-play and begin in 2016