Geno Smith or Kalif Raymond: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Geno Smith at 14.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 market sources. That is the 49th highest figure of the 219 players the market prices.

The player markets price Kalif Raymond at 7.5 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 128th highest figure of the 219 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Geno Smith: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kalif Raymond: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Geno Smith has been on the field for 100 percent of NYJ snaps, dropped back 136 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 136 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.

In Week 2 against GB he completed 27 of 40 passes for 247 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 17 yards.

In Week 3 against DET he completed 31 of 37 passes for 321 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

In Week 4 against CHI he completed 8 of 15 passes for 119 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

Through Week 4, Kalif Raymond has been on the field for 61 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he caught 5 of 5 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PHI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Geno Smith played 15 games and scored 190.9 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing QB23.

He threw for 3025 yards on 448 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 17 interceptions, and ran for 109 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Kalif Raymond played 15 games and scored 66.8 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR94.

He caught 24 of 30 targets for 289 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 2.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Geno Smith scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Kalif Raymond 4.5, 8.3 a game between them.

Geno Smith finished QB23 and Kalif Raymond WR94, which are two different ladders.

Geno Smith is a quarterback and Kalif Raymond a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Geno Smith is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Kalif Raymond.

What would change the answer

7.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.