Should I start Eli Raridon or Nico Collins in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Eli Raridon, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Nico Collins, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Eli Raridon's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 53rd highest figure of the 160 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Nico Collins is 3.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Nico Collins's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Eli Raridon has been on the field for 49 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.

Through Week 6, Nico Collins has been on the field for 71 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 12.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 7 of 8 targets for 118 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 5 of 7 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against JAX he carried 1 time for 5 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 74 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 Nico Collins played 15 games and scored 226.2 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing WR8.

He caught 71 of 120 targets for 1117 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 8.0 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 15.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 77 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Eli Raridon is a tight end and Nico Collins a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Nico Collins is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Eli Raridon.

What would change the answer

Nico Collins has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.