Should I start Tony Pollard or Eli Raridon in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tony Pollard, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Eli Raridon, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tony Pollard is 3.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. 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 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 183 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 55 percent of TEN snaps, taken 67 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 41 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 6 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 1.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 16 times for 48 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 2 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against HOU he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he carried 19 times for 76 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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 Tony Pollard played 17 games and scored 185.8 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing RB23.

He carried 242 times for 1082 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 41 targets for 206 more yards.

That came to 14.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 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

Tony Pollard 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

Tony Pollard is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Eli Raridon.

What would change the answer

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