Kalif Raymond or Jalen Royals: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Kalif Raymond over Jalen Royals
- Market projects
- 6.6
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 62%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 17%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 6.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 31%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 4
Kalif Raymond's market-based projection is 0.3 points a game ahead of Jalen Royals's this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the market-based projection is the live read on these two.
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- Market-based projection
- 6.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
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- Market-based projection
- 6.2 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.3 points a game
- Board size229 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.
The market-based projections
Kalif Raymond's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 115th highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.
Jalen Royals's market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 118th highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kalif Raymond: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Royals: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Kalif Raymond has been on the field for 62 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 27 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.
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.
In Week 5 against GB he carried 1 time for -2 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Jalen Royals has been on the field for 31 percent of KC snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.
In Week 2 against IND he caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LV he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Jalen Royals played 7 games and scored 2.4 PPR points, 0.3 a game.
He caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 2.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 9 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kalif Raymond was available for 8 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Kalif Raymond scored 4.5 PPR points a game and Jalen Royals 0.3, 4.1 a game between them.
Kalif Raymond had 27 more targets than Jalen Royals, 30 to 3.
Kalif Raymond had 285 more receiving yards than Jalen Royals, 289 to 4.
This season Kalif Raymond holds the bigger snap share, 62 percent against 31 percent.
This season Kalif Raymond holds the bigger target share, 17 percent against 5 percent.
What would change the answer
0.3 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 projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.
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