Should I start Kyler Murray or Eli Raridon in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 4:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kyler Murray: 100 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.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
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- Overall rank
- 78
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- Market-based projection
- 3.9 pts a game
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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 Kyler Murray, and the board ranks him 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 18.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Eli Raridon, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Kyler Murray is 16.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Eli Raridon's market-based projection is 3.9 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.
Kyler Murray's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Kyler Murray has been on the field for 80 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 122 times and thrown 6.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 16 of 122 dropbacks and scrambled 13 times.
In Week 3 against TB he completed 15 of 29 passes for 168 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 17 yards.
In Week 4 against MIA he completed 27 of 37 passes for 247 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 21 yards.
In Week 5 against NO he completed 24 of 29 passes for 229 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 54 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 Kyler Murray played 5 games and scored 80.8 PPR points, 16.2 a game, finishing QB38.
He threw for 962 yards on 161 attempts with 6 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 173 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 32.2 attempts a game at 6.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 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
Kyler Murray 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
Kyler Murray is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Eli Raridon.
What would change the answer
Kyler Murray has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
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