Should I start Kalif Raymond or Josh Allen in Week 8?

Where the draft room has them

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kalif Raymond, and the board ranks him 28th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Josh Allen goes at ADP 1, an average pick of 24.3, and the board has him QB7 in tier 2.

His earliest recorded pick is 1 and his latest 37, a standard deviation of 9.0 picks.

He appears in 16 recorded drafts across the draft formats we track.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.

The market-based projections

Kalif Raymond's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 30th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Josh Allen is 5.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

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 6, Josh Allen has been on the field for 100 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 200 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 200 dropbacks and scrambled 17 times.

In Week 4 against NE he completed 23 of 33 passes for 253 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 4 yards.

In Week 5 against LAR he completed 12 of 19 passes for 210 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 10 times for 121 yards.

In Week 6 against LV he completed 23 of 33 passes for 255 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 4 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 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.

He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.

That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.

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

Josh Allen was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Kalif Raymond 4.5, 17.6 a game between them.

Kalif Raymond finished WR94 and Josh Allen QB1, which are two different ladders.

Kalif Raymond is a wide receiver and Josh Allen 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 Josh Allen in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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