Calvin Ridley or Joshua Palmer: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Joshua Palmer over Calvin Ridley
- Market projects
- 3.9
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 40%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 8%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 3.6
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 52%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 6%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Joshua Palmer, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR50 · TEN · bye 9
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market-based projection
- 3.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR · BUF · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 2-2
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size202 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Calvin Ridley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Joshua Palmer at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped 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
Calvin Ridley's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 129th highest figure of the 159 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Joshua Palmer, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
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 4, Joshua Palmer has been on the field for 40 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have averaged 23.4 air yards.
In Week 2 against DET he caught 1 of 3 targets for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against LAC he was not given the ball.
In Week 4 against NE he caught 1 of 4 targets for 3 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 Joshua Palmer played 12 games and scored 52.3 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing WR105.
He caught 22 of 37 targets for 303 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.
That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 13.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Joshua Palmer was available for 5 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Calvin Ridley scored 6.8 PPR points a game and Joshua Palmer 4.4, 2.4 a game between them.
Calvin Ridley finished WR116 that year and Joshua Palmer WR105.
Joshua Palmer had 1 more targets than Calvin Ridley, 37 to 36.
Both had 303 receiving yards.
This season Calvin Ridley holds the bigger snap share, 52 percent against 40 percent.
This season Joshua Palmer holds the bigger target share, 8 percent against 6 percent.
Byes and availability
Calvin Ridley is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Joshua Palmer.
What would change the answer
Joshua Palmer has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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