Amari Cooper Week 16 Outlook - Patriots at Bills

By Derek Brown (FantasyPros), Thu, Dec 19th 2024, 1:05pm EST

Cooper tossed a shutout last week. If you had to depend on him last week in fantasy, I'm sorry. He played only 46% of the snaps and didn't even draw a target. If I told you that the Bills would post 48 points against the Lions, I don't know if anyone would have guessed that Cooper would do absolutely nothing, especially coming off his Week 14 performance. Since Week 9, New England has had the fifth-highest single-high rate (61.8%). Since Week 7, against single-high, Cooper has had a 29% TPRR, 1.55 YPRR, and a 21.5% first-read share (second on the team). Since Week 10, New England has limited boundary receivers to the 14th-fewest PPR points per target and the seventh-fewest receiving yards per game. Cooper may get shadowed this week as well by Christian Gonzalez. Last week, Gonzalez followed Marvin Harrison Jr. on 73.3% of his routes, holding him to one catch and 23 receiving yards in his primary coverage.