Should I start Kalif Raymond or Jaylin Noel in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kalif Raymond, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylin Noel, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kalif Raymond's market-based projection is 6.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 50th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jaylin Noel is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Kalif Raymond has been on the field for 60 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

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.

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

Through Week 6, Jaylin Noel has been on the field for 46 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 11.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against DAL he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 85 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TEN he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 41 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against JAX he caught 4 of 4 targets for 107 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Jaylin Noel played 17 games and scored 68.4 PPR points, 4.0 a game, finishing WR91.

He caught 26 of 35 targets for 292 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 27 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jaylin Noel was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Kalif Raymond scored 4.5 PPR points a game and Jaylin Noel 4.0, 0.4 a game between them.

Kalif Raymond finished WR94 that year and Jaylin Noel WR91.

Jaylin Noel had 5 more targets than Kalif Raymond, 35 to 30.

Jaylin Noel had 3 more receiving yards than Kalif Raymond, 292 to 289.

This season Kalif Raymond holds the bigger snap share, 60 percent against 46 percent.

This season Kalif Raymond holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Kalif Raymond is off in Week 10 and Jaylin Noel in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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