Should I start Eli Raridon or Harold Fannin Jr. in Week 8?
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Start Harold Fannin Jr.: 83 percent of the snaps and 26 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Eli Raridon's 56 percent of the snaps and 13 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
TE20 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-5
- Market-based projection
- 6.8 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 117
TE21 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-6
- Market-based projection
- 8.5 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 118
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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 Eli Raridon, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Harold Fannin Jr., and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Eli Raridon is 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market has Harold Fannin Jr. at 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Eli Raridon's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Eli Raridon has been on the field for 51 percent of NE snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 20 targets have averaged 7.2 air yards.
In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 56 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against MIA he caught 1 of 4 targets for 5 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Harold Fannin Jr. has been on the field for 83 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 18 third down targets, had 1 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.
His 21 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.
In Week 7 against TEN he caught 6 of 9 targets for 91 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against PIT he caught 10 of 12 targets for 154 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 Harold Fannin Jr. played 16 games and scored 186.4 PPR points, 11.7 a game, finishing TE6.
He caught 72 of 107 targets for 731 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.
That came to 6.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 10.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Harold Fannin Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 83 percent against 51 percent.
This season Harold Fannin Jr. holds the bigger target share, 28 percent against 10 percent.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Both players in full
Week 8 on the board
- Is Eli Raridon playing Week 8?
- Is Harold Fannin Jr. playing Week 8?
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