Should I start Jonah Coleman or Kalif Raymond in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jonah Coleman, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kalif Raymond, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jonah Coleman is 3.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.

Kalif Raymond's market-based projection is 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 135th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Jonah Coleman has been on the field for 42 percent of DEN snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 6 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 2.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against JAX he carried 10 times for 39 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against ARI he carried 9 times for 54 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against KC he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 63 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Kalif Raymond has been on the field for 62 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 0 of its 40 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against SEA he carried 1 time for 39 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Jonah Coleman is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

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.

Side by side

Jonah Coleman is a running back 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

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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