Calvin Ridley or Jalen Brooks: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Calvin Ridley's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 152 players with a market-based projection.

Jalen Brooks's market-based projection is 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 152 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Calvin Ridley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Brooks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Calvin Ridley has been on the field for 52 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 9.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYG he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 5, Jalen Brooks has been on the field for 15 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 14.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against SF he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 2 of 7 targets for 16 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.

In 2025 Jalen Brooks played 6 games and scored 6.1 PPR points, 1.0 a game.

He caught 3 of 6 targets for 51 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 1.0 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 17.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 32 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Calvin Ridley was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Calvin Ridley scored 6.8 PPR points a game and Jalen Brooks 1.0, 5.7 a game between them.

Calvin Ridley had 30 more targets than Jalen Brooks, 36 to 6.

Calvin Ridley had 252 more receiving yards than Jalen Brooks, 303 to 51.

This season Calvin Ridley holds the bigger snap share, 52 percent against 15 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 Jalen Brooks.

What would change the answer

0.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.