Should I start Christian Kirk or Kalif Raymond in Week 7?
Updated Oct 24, 5:21 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kalif Raymond: he has been on the field this season, 54 percent of the snaps, and Christian Kirk has no snap on record yet. 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR50 · SF · bye unlisted
2025 vs catches line 4-9
- Market-based projection
- 6.7 pts a game
WR53 · CHI · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-6
- Market-based projection
- 6.4 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 151
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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 Christian Kirk, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kalif Raymond, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Christian Kirk's market-based projection is 6.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Kalif Raymond, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 6
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Christian Kirk this season.
Through Week 6, Kalif Raymond has been on the field for 60 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 32 two minute targets.
His 29 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.
In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against GB he carried 1 time for -2 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against ATL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Christian Kirk played 13 games and scored 57.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR100.
He caught 28 of 52 targets for 239 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.
That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 54 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 48 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Kalif Raymond played 15 games and scored 66.8 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR94.
He caught 24 of 30 targets for 289 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.
That came to 2.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kalif Raymond was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 they scored the same 4.5 PPR points a game.
Christian Kirk finished WR100 that year and Kalif Raymond WR94.
Christian Kirk had 22 more targets than Kalif Raymond, 52 to 30.
Kalif Raymond had 50 more receiving yards than Christian Kirk, 289 to 239.
Byes and availability
Kalif Raymond is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Christian Kirk.
What would change the answer
Kalif Raymond has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
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- Is Kalif Raymond playing Week 7?
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