Cooper Kupp Fantasy Overview

Eleven Weeks Outside the Top 36

Kupp’s first season in Seattle failed to reignite his fantasy value. He finished with:

• 70 targets
• 47 catches
• 593 receiving yards
• 2 TDs

Kupp averaged a career-low 7.4 PPR points per game and finished outside the top 36 WRs in 11 of his 16 weeks.

Kupp’s production became even shakier after Seattle traded for Rashid Shaheed at midseason. He went from 3.4 catches and 41.9 yards per game before Shaheed arrived to 2.6 and 33.3 after. He failed to reach 50 receiving yards in his final eight regular-season outings after doing so three times over the first half.

Kupp did rebound, at least, for these lines in the three playoff games:

• 5-60
• 4-36-1
• 6-61

Moving to Seattle Hurt; Shaheed’s Arrival Didn’t

Frankly, we figured Rashid Shaheed’s midseason arrival would kill Cooper Kupp’s season. But it didn’t for a couple of reasons.

1. Kupp’s playing time remained intact after the trade. He went from running a route on 78.5% of dropbacks before the trade to 77.2% after.
2. Kupp’s fantasy value died long before Shaheed arrived.

His 14.9% target share for the season ranked just 59th among WRs. That number sat at just 15.8% through Week 9, before Shaheed’s arrival, ranking 58th.

And those shares look even worse when you put them on a team that ranked 29th in total pass attempts in 2025.

Kupp didn’t help himself by posting a career-low 1.49 yards per route while spending less time in the slot (47%, according to PFF) than he did in any other season.

The Curve Has Been Pointing Down

Kupp’s production has steadily declined since his historic 2021 season.

Kupp also turns 33 in June and comes with durability concerns.

Durability Isn’t a Side Note at 33

Kupp has missed games in four consecutive seasons. Last year found him dealing with heel and hamstring issues but missing just one game.

A Week 2 high-ankle sprain cost him four games the previous season. An August 2023 hamstring injury forced him to miss the first four games, and a high-ankle sprain ended his 2022 after nine games, requiring surgery.

A 2018 torn ACL cost Kupp the final six games of that campaign, but he rebounded with a strong showing in 2019.

The long list of lower-body injuries is impossible to ignore, especially as Kupp heads into his age-33 season.

Role Is Shrinking With the Skills

Seattle returns most of its offensive core. Rashid Shaheed is expected to emerge as Seattle’s No. 2 after garnering a three-year, $51 million deal in free agency. Any role growth there would reduce Kupp’s playing time and target allotment.

JSN remains the engine of the passing game after leading the NFL in receiving yards last season.

Second-year WR Tory Horton and sixth-round rookie Emmanuel Henderson add depth. Horton played 46% of Seattle’s snaps and had three top-36 finishes on a 10% target share before injuring his shin in Week 9 and missing the remainder of the season.

The Seahawks also project to remain heavily committed to the run behind first-round RB Jadarian Price.

That creates a difficult environment for Kupp to return meaningful fantasy value.

Paths to Ceiling

Kupp landed outside the top 50 fantasy WRs across formats last year, despite arriving on a $15 million-a-year contract to a pass offense with JSN and not much else. It’s tough to see a path to meaningful upside this year unless multiple WR teammates go down.

Risk Factors

Kupp looks like a ball of risk factors. His opportunity and production fell off last season, and then Seattle paid up to keep a younger, faster wideout off the open market. It’ll be really surprising if Kupp stays ahead of Shaheed in playing time.

Add to that a pass offense that looks like it wants to stay low-volume, plus a lengthy, recent injury history and his age-33 season.

Kupp makes the downside case for himself.