Should I start Eli Raridon or Jeremy McNichols in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 5:21 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Eli Raridon: 56 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jeremy McNichols's 18 percent of the snaps and 31 percent of the carries. 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.
TE18 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-5
- Market-based projection
- 6.8 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 112
RB49 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 1-16
- Market-based projection
- 5.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 195
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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 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 195th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Eli Raridon is 2.3 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-based projection for Jeremy McNichols is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back'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, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 18 percent of WAS snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 1.0 air yards.
In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against PHI he carried 5 times for 21 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 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 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.
He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.
That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 33 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Eli Raridon is a tight end and Jeremy McNichols a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Eli Raridon is off in Week 11 and Jeremy McNichols in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jeremy McNichols is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Both players in full
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