Should I start Eli Raridon or Davante Adams in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Eli Raridon, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Davante Adams, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Eli Raridon's market-based projection is 3.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 71st highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Davante Adams 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Eli Raridon has been on the field for 51 percent of NE snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 7.8 air yards.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LV he caught 5 of 5 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Davante Adams has been on the field for 76 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 49 targets have averaged 15.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 4 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 7 targets for 51 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Eli Raridon is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Davante Adams played 14 games and scored 222.9 PPR points, 15.9 a game, finishing WR9.

He caught 60 of 114 targets for 789 yards and 14 touchdowns, with 31 red zone targets.

That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 13.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Eli Raridon is a tight end and Davante Adams a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Davante Adams is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Eli Raridon.

Davante Adams is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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