Should I start Calvin Ridley or Malik Washington in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Calvin Ridley, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Washington, and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Calvin Ridley's market-based projection is 2.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 129th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Malik Washington is 2.1 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Calvin Ridley has been on the field for 53 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 9.0 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against CIN he caught 1 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Malik Washington has been on the field for 82 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 48 targets have averaged 10.5 air yards.

In Week 7 against NYJ he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against NE he caught 5 of 6 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against DET he carried 1 time for 0 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 21 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 Malik Washington played 17 games and scored 116.7 PPR points, 6.9 a game, finishing WR54.

He caught 46 of 65 targets for 317 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 6.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Malik Washington was available for 10 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Malik Washington scored 6.9 PPR points a game and Calvin Ridley 6.8, 0.1 a game between them.

Calvin Ridley finished WR116 that year and Malik Washington WR54.

Malik Washington had 29 more targets than Calvin Ridley, 65 to 36.

Malik Washington had 14 more receiving yards than Calvin Ridley, 317 to 303.

This season Malik Washington holds the bigger snap share, 82 percent against 53 percent.

This season Malik Washington holds the bigger target share, 24 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

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