Should I start Jalen Hurts or Eli Raridon in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 8:02 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jalen Hurts: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Eli Raridon's 58 percent of the snaps and 10 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.
Parlae may earn a commission from price links.
Advertisement
Your next move
More fantasy football tools and rankings, all built from the same board.
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB23 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 12.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 150
TE21 · NE · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 3.9 pts a game
Make this call for your own roster
Sync your league and My Team sets this week's lineup for your actual roster, spot by spot. Free, no account.
Or get it by email
Tuesday 8am ET: one email with what moved on the board and who is worth a claim.
Free. One a week, one tap to stop.
The gap
- Board size303 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 Jalen Hurts, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Eli Raridon, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jalen Hurts, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Eli Raridon's market-based projection is 3.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 99 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.
In Week 3 against CHI he completed 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.
In Week 4 against LAR he completed 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 18 yards.
In Week 5 against JAX he completed 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.
He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.
That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Eli Raridon is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Jalen Hurts is a quarterback and Eli Raridon a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jalen Hurts is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Eli Raridon.
Jalen Hurts is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Jalen Hurts 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
- Is Jalen Hurts playing Week 7?
- Is Eli Raridon playing Week 7?
- Eagles depth chart
- Patriots depth chart
- Week 7 QB rankings
- Week 7 TE rankings
- Week 7 fantasy rankings
- Week 7 start or sit
- Week 7 waiver wire
- Week 7 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 7
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 7 kicker rankings
- Week 7 defense rankings
