Should I start Colby Parkinson or Kalif Raymond in Week 7?

Updated Oct 24, 6:56 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Colby Parkinson and Kalif Raymond are too close to call on usage: 56 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets against 54 percent of the snaps and 8 percent of the targets over their last 3 games. 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.

Should I drop Colby Parkinson for Kalif Raymond?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Kalif Raymond projects 59 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (6.6 a game over 9 games), Colby Parkinson 48 (5.3 a game over 9 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Colby Parkinson

TE21 · LAR · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Market-based projection: 6.9 pts a game

Kalif Raymond

WR52 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 1-6

Market-based projection: 6.4 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 139

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The gap

Board size329 draftable players

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 Colby Parkinson, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kalif Raymond, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 111th highest figure of the 205 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

Through Week 6, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.

He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.

That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 59 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.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Colby Parkinson scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Kalif Raymond 4.5, 4.2 a game between them.

Colby Parkinson finished TE17 and Kalif Raymond WR94, which are two different ladders.

Colby Parkinson is a tight end and Kalif Raymond a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kalif Raymond is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

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.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Colby Parkinson for Kalif Raymond?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Kalif Raymond projects 59 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (6.6 a game over 9 games), Colby Parkinson 48 (5.3 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop Kalif Raymond for Colby Parkinson?
No. Keep Kalif Raymond: he projects 59 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (6.6 a game over 9 games), Colby Parkinson 48 (5.3 a game over 9 games).

Should I drop Kalif Raymond?