Should I start Eli Raridon or Braelon Allen in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Eli Raridon, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Braelon Allen, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Eli Raridon's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 59th highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Braelon Allen is 4.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Eli Raridon has been on the field for 49 percent of NE snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 7.8 air yards.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LV he caught 5 of 5 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Braelon Allen has been on the field for 56 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 49 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against CHI he carried 14 times for 59 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CLE he carried 24 times for 116 yards, caught 1 of 4 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NE he carried 17 times for 78 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Eli Raridon is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Braelon Allen played 4 games and scored 15.3 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB100.

He carried 18 times for 76 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 more yards.

That came to 4-5 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Eli Raridon is a tight end and Braelon Allen a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Braelon Allen is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Eli Raridon.

What would change the answer

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