Seth McGowan or Kalif Raymond: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Seth McGowan: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kalif Raymond: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Seth McGowan is 3.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 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 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Seth McGowan has been on the field for 18 percent of IND snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against HOU he carried 4 times for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against WAS he carried 6 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PIT he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Kalif Raymond has been on the field for 62 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against PHI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

Seth McGowan 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

Seth McGowan 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.

What would change the answer

Seth McGowan is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.