Tai Felton or Eli Raridon: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 11, 2026 at 8:51 PM ET
Eli Raridon is the start on the latest market price, 3.6 points to Tai Felton's 3.3, the market figures from their Week 5 games. The next week's markets are not all posted yet, and this answer reorders when they are. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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WR86 · MIN · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 3.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 207
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 21
TE37 · NE · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Market price
- 3.6 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 211
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size289 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tai Felton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 207th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Eli Raridon: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 211th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Tai Felton, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Eli Raridon, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Tai Felton has been on the field for 40 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.
In Week 1 against GB he was not given the ball.
In Week 3 against TB he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 14 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Eli Raridon has been on the field for 46 percent of NE snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 2 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 13 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 10.3 air yards.
In Week 1 against SEA he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 2 against PIT he caught 1 of 1 target for 30 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tai Felton played 17 games and scored 5.5 PPR points, 0.3 a game.
He caught 3 of 3 targets for 25 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 0.2 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 8.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 4 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
Tai Felton is a wide receiver and Eli Raridon a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
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