Should I start Calvin Ridley or Marvin Mims Jr. in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Calvin Ridley, and the board ranks him 165th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Marvin Mims Jr., and the board ranks him 168th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Calvin Ridley is 3.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Marvin Mims Jr.'s market-based projection is 3.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 147th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

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.

Through Week 6, Marvin Mims Jr. has been on the field for 23 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 13 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 Marvin Mims Jr. played 15 games and scored 93.0 PPR points, 6.2 a game, finishing WR66.

He caught 37 of 51 targets for 322 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 35 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Marvin Mims Jr. was available for 8 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Calvin Ridley scored 6.8 PPR points a game and Marvin Mims Jr. 6.2, 0.6 a game between them.

Calvin Ridley finished WR116 that year and Marvin Mims Jr. WR66.

Marvin Mims Jr. had 15 more targets than Calvin Ridley, 51 to 36.

Marvin Mims Jr. had 19 more receiving yards than Calvin Ridley, 322 to 303.

This season Calvin Ridley holds the bigger snap share, 53 percent against 23 percent.

This season Marvin Mims Jr. holds the bigger target share, 8 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Calvin Ridley is off in Week 9 and Marvin Mims Jr. in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Calvin Ridley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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