Should I start Erick All Jr. or Calvin Ridley in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Erick All Jr., and the board ranks him 174th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Calvin Ridley, and the board ranks him 176th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Erick All Jr. at 0.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Calvin Ridley is 0.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Erick All Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 7, Erick All Jr. has been on the field for 28 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Calvin Ridley has been on the field for 53 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 8.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against BAL he caught 1 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Erick All Jr. in the last completed season.

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.

Side by side

Erick All Jr. is a tight end and Calvin Ridley a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Erick All Jr. is off in Week 6 and Calvin Ridley in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Erick All Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Calvin Ridley is listed as out on the injury report.