Should I start Van Jefferson or Calvin Ridley in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Van Jefferson, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Calvin Ridley, and the board ranks him 183rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Van Jefferson's market-based projection is 4.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 54th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Calvin Ridley is 1.0 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 9, Van Jefferson has been on the field for 25 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 11.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 8 against PHI he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAR he caught 5 of 7 targets for 58 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Van Jefferson played 16 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing WR88.

He caught 29 of 52 targets for 350 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 12.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Van Jefferson was available for 9 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Calvin Ridley scored 6.8 PPR points a game and Van Jefferson 4.4, 2.4 a game between them.

Van Jefferson finished WR88 that year and Calvin Ridley WR116.

Van Jefferson had 16 more targets than Calvin Ridley, 52 to 36.

Van Jefferson had 47 more receiving yards than Calvin Ridley, 350 to 303.

This season Calvin Ridley holds the bigger snap share, 53 percent against 25 percent.

This season Van Jefferson holds the bigger target share, 10 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Van Jefferson is off in Week 7 and Calvin Ridley in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.