Should I start Calvin Ridley or Audric Estime in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Calvin Ridley, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Audric Estime, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Calvin Ridley's market-based projection is 2.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 138th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Audric Estime is 3.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Audric Estime's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 8, Calvin Ridley has been on the field for 53 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 9.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 2 of 3 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CIN he caught 1 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Audric Estime has been on the field for 26 percent of NO snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 2 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 1 target have come 7.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against BAL he carried 9 times for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against CLE he carried 15 times for 72 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Calvin Ridley played 7 games and scored 47.3 PPR points, 6.8 a game, finishing WR116.

He caught 17 of 36 targets for 303 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 47 percent catch rate and 17.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Audric Estime played 7 games and scored 48.1 PPR points, 6.9 a game, finishing RB71.

He carried 46 times for 198 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 12 of 13 targets for 103 more yards.

That came to 6.6 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 31 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 7 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Audric Estime scored 6.9 PPR points a game and Calvin Ridley 6.8, 0.1 a game between them.

Calvin Ridley finished WR116 and Audric Estime RB71, which are two different ladders.

Calvin Ridley is a wide receiver and Audric Estime a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Calvin Ridley is off in Week 9 and Audric Estime in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Audric Estime has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.