Should I start Kalif Raymond or Mike Evans in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Evans, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

The market-based projection for Mike Evans is 4.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

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.

Through Week 6, Mike Evans has been on the field for 55 percent of SF snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 14.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he caught 5 of 8 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SEA he caught 7 of 10 targets for 113 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against WAS he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

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 Mike Evans played 8 games and scored 84.8 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing WR76.

He caught 30 of 61 targets for 368 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 7.6 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kalif Raymond was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Mike Evans scored 10.6 PPR points a game and Kalif Raymond 4.5, 6.1 a game between them.

Kalif Raymond finished WR94 that year and Mike Evans WR76.

Mike Evans had 31 more targets than Kalif Raymond, 61 to 30.

Mike Evans had 79 more receiving yards than Kalif Raymond, 368 to 289.

This season Kalif Raymond holds the bigger snap share, 62 percent against 55 percent.

This season Mike Evans holds the bigger target share, 23 percent against 13 percent.

Byes and availability

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

Mike Evans is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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