Should I start Kalif Raymond or Efton Chism III in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 1:16 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kalif Raymond: 61 percent of the snaps and 8 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Efton Chism III's 63 percent of the snaps and 3 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR13 · CHI · bye 10
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- Market-based projection
- 5.8 pts a game
WR · NE · bye unlisted
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- Overall rank
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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 Kalif Raymond, and the board ranks him 28th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Efton Chism III at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Kalif Raymond's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 30th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Efton Chism III, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 7
Through Week 7, Kalif Raymond has been on the field for 61 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 0 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 33 two minute targets.
His 31 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.
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.
In Week 7 against NE he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 7, Efton Chism III has been on the field for 63 percent of NE snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 5 third down targets and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 3.0 air yards.
In Week 7 against CHI he caught 1 of 1 target for 16 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Efton Chism III played 8 games and scored 16.5 PPR points, 2.1 a game.
He caught 3 of 3 targets for 75 yards and 1 touchdown, with 1 red zone target.
That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 25.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kalif Raymond was available for 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Kalif Raymond scored 4.5 PPR points a game and Efton Chism III 2.1, 2.4 a game between them.
Kalif Raymond had 27 more targets than Efton Chism III, 30 to 3.
Kalif Raymond had 214 more receiving yards than Efton Chism III, 289 to 75.
This season Efton Chism III holds the bigger snap share, 63 percent against 61 percent.
This season Kalif Raymond holds the bigger target share, 14 percent against 3 percent.
Byes and availability
Kalif Raymond is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Efton Chism III.
What would change the answer
Efton Chism III has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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