Should I start Kalif Raymond or Jared Goff in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 11:26 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

Start Jared Goff: 99 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kalif Raymond's 61 percent of the snaps and 8 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Kalif Raymond for Jared Goff?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Jared Goff projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.7 a game over 10 games), Kalif Raymond 59 (6.5 a game over 9 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Kalif Raymond

WR28 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 1-6

Market-based projection: 5.9 pts a game

Jared Goff

QB5 · DET · bye 6

2026 vs pass yds line 4-2

Overall rank: 59

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kalif Raymond, and the board ranks him 57th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jared Goff, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kalif Raymond's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 70th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jared Goff is 18.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Kalif Raymond has been on the field for 61 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 0 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against GB he carried 1 time for -2 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NE he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Jared Goff has been on the field for 99 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 240 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 33 of 240 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 4 against CAR he completed 32 of 52 passes for 412 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 5 against ARI he completed 19 of 30 passes for 271 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

In Week 7 against GB he completed 22 of 32 passes for 303 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

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 Jared Goff played 17 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 17.9 a game, finishing QB9.

He threw for 4564 yards on 578 attempts with 34 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 45 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 34.0 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jared Goff was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jared Goff scored 17.9 PPR points a game and Kalif Raymond 4.5, 13.5 a game between them.

Kalif Raymond finished WR94 and Jared Goff QB9, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Kalif Raymond is off in Week 10 and Jared Goff in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Kalif Raymond for Jared Goff?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jared Goff projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.7 a game over 10 games), Kalif Raymond 59 (6.5 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop Jared Goff for Kalif Raymond?
No. Keep Jared Goff: he projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.7 a game over 10 games), Kalif Raymond 59 (6.5 a game over 9 games).

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