Should I start Rico Dowdle or Eli Raridon in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rico Dowdle, and the board ranks him 33rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Eli Raridon, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 9.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Eli Raridon is 1.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 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 so far

Through Week 8, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 40 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against TB he carried 7 times for 40 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NO he carried 9 times for 41 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 45 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CLE he carried 15 times for 56 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 9, Eli Raridon has been on the field for 57 percent of NE snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 7.5 air yards.

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.

In Week 9 against GB he caught 3 of 6 targets for 52 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 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

Rico Dowdle is a running back 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

Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9 and Eli Raridon in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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