Should I start Calvin Ridley or Jacob Cowing in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 5:51 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Jacob Cowing over Calvin Ridley

- Market projects
- 3.0
- recent weeks avg
- ATL D vs WR
- 37.7
- 6th most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 31%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 5

- Market projects
- 1.5
- recent weeks avg
- CLE D vs WR
- 36.0
- 10th most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 52%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 6%
- Through Week 6
Start Jacob Cowing over Calvin Ridley in Week 7: 3.0 to 1.5 PPR points a game over recent weeks. Cowing faces ATL, which allows the 6th most fantasy points to WRs.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR72 · TEN · bye 9
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 3.4 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 163
WR · SF · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Calvin Ridley, and the board ranks him 163rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Jacob Cowing at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Calvin Ridley is 0.7 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.
No season market is posted for Jacob Cowing, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 6, Calvin Ridley has been on the field for 52 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.
Through Week 5, Jacob Cowing has been on the field for 31 percent of SF snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 14.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DEN he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against SEA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
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.
The season feed carries no line for Jacob Cowing in the last completed season.
Head to head
This season Calvin Ridley holds the bigger snap share, 52 percent against 31 percent.
This season Calvin Ridley holds the bigger target share, 6 percent against 4 percent.
Byes and availability
Calvin Ridley is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Jacob Cowing.
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