Should I start Calvin Ridley or Mike Evans in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Calvin Ridley, and the board ranks him 161st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Evans, and the board ranks him 163rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Calvin Ridley's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 155th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Mike Evans is 3.4 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.

Mike Evans'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 6, Mike Evans has been on the field for 55 percent of SF snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 14.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he caught 5 of 8 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SEA he caught 7 of 10 targets for 113 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against WAS he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 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 Mike Evans played 8 games and scored 84.8 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing WR76.

He caught 30 of 61 targets for 368 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 7.6 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Mike Evans was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Mike Evans scored 10.6 PPR points a game and Calvin Ridley 6.8, 3.8 a game between them.

Calvin Ridley finished WR116 that year and Mike Evans WR76.

Mike Evans had 25 more targets than Calvin Ridley, 61 to 36.

Mike Evans had 65 more receiving yards than Calvin Ridley, 368 to 303.

This season Mike Evans holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 53 percent.

This season Mike Evans holds the bigger target share, 23 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Calvin Ridley is off in Week 9 and Mike Evans in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Mike Evans is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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