Should I start Trevor Lawrence or Kalif Raymond in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Trevor Lawrence, and the board ranks him 48th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kalif Raymond, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Trevor Lawrence is 19.6 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 2 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Kalif Raymond's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 62nd highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Trevor Lawrence has been on the field for 97 percent of JAX snaps, dropped back 200 times and thrown 8.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 200 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 4 against CIN he completed 18 of 23 passes for 227 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

In Week 5 against PHI he completed 24 of 39 passes for 331 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 25 yards.

In Week 6 against HOU he completed 24 of 41 passes for 306 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Trevor Lawrence played 17 games and scored 350.2 PPR points, 20.6 a game, finishing QB4.

He threw for 4007 yards on 560 attempts with 29 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and ran for 359 yards and 9 touchdowns.

That came to 32.9 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.

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

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.

Trevor Lawrence was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Trevor Lawrence scored 20.6 PPR points a game and Kalif Raymond 4.5, 16.1 a game between them.

Trevor Lawrence finished QB4 and Kalif Raymond WR94, which are two different ladders.

Trevor Lawrence is a quarterback 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

Trevor Lawrence is off in Week 7 and Kalif Raymond in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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