Should I start Calvin Ridley or Tyquan Thornton in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 12:06 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Tyquan Thornton: 57 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Calvin Ridley's 54 percent of the snaps and 8 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR · TEN · on bye this week
2026 vs anytime td line 0-7
- Market-based projection
- 4.6 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 263
WR · KC · bye 5
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 271
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Calvin Ridley, and the board ranks him 263rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyquan Thornton, and the board ranks him 271st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Calvin Ridley, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Tyquan Thornton, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
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 4, Tyquan Thornton has been on the field for 60 percent of KC snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 18.7 air yards.
In Week 2 against IND he caught 4 of 4 targets for 86 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LV he caught 5 of 8 targets for 111 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
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 Tyquan Thornton played 14 games and scored 80.8 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR81.
He caught 19 of 37 targets for 438 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 2.6 targets a game, a 51 percent catch rate and 23.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Tyquan Thornton was available for 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Calvin Ridley scored 6.8 PPR points a game and Tyquan Thornton 5.8, 1.0 a game between them.
Calvin Ridley finished WR116 that year and Tyquan Thornton WR81.
Tyquan Thornton had 1 more targets than Calvin Ridley, 37 to 36.
Tyquan Thornton had 135 more receiving yards than Calvin Ridley, 438 to 303.
This season Tyquan Thornton holds the bigger snap share, 60 percent against 53 percent.
This season Tyquan Thornton holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 6 percent.
Byes and availability
Calvin Ridley is off in Week 9 and Tyquan Thornton in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
Tyquan Thornton is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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