Start Calvin Ridley or Darnell Mooney? Week 7

Our Week 7 call

Start Darnell Mooney over Calvin Ridley in Week 7.

Market-based projections have Darnell Mooney at 4.3 points and Calvin Ridley at 3.8, a gap of 0.5. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. Calvin Ridley's number is scaled up from a partial market: not every stat the position needs is posted yet, so the rest is estimated from what is. No player market is posted for Darnell Mooney this week yet, so his 4.3 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 4, 5 and 6 (4.4, 4.1 and 4.5); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 7 player market is posted for Darnell Mooney yet. His market-based projections were 4.4, 4.1 and 4.5 points in Weeks 4, 5 and 6, an average of 4.3, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.

The market-based projection for Darnell Mooney is 0.1 touchdowns (10 market sources).

Player markets imply 3.8 fantasy points for Calvin Ridley, with 60 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.

The market-based projection for Calvin Ridley is 0.1 touchdowns (12 market sources).

That puts Darnell Mooney 0.5 points ahead of Calvin Ridley on these projections.

Week 7 matchups

Darnell Mooney and NYG visit HOU on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

HOU allowed 38.1 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 6 games, the 4th most in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 186 yards and a touchdown a game against HOU.

Calvin Ridley and TEN host CLE on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

CLE allowed 33.5 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 6 games, the 12th most in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 155 yards and 1.2 touchdowns a game against CLE.

By points allowed to the position, Darnell Mooney has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Darnell Mooney is not on the injury report.

Calvin Ridley is listed as questionable with a hip injury.

Usage before Week 7

Through Week 6, Darnell Mooney played 55 percent of NYG snaps, drew 9 percent of the targets, earned 13 percent of the air yards and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

Darnell Mooney, Week 3 against TEN: 28 of 64 snaps, 1 carry for 9 yards, 3 targets and 2 catches for 20 yards.

Darnell Mooney, Week 4 against ARI: 37 of 67 snaps, 2 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Darnell Mooney, Week 5 against WAS: 58 of 89 snaps, 7 targets and 2 catches for 14 yards.

Darnell Mooney, Week 6 against NO: 28 of 77 snaps, 1 carry for 20 yards, 2 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Through Week 6, Calvin Ridley played 53 percent of TEN snaps, drew 6 percent of the targets, earned 7 percent of the air yards and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

Calvin Ridley, Week 3 against NYG: 20 of 60 snaps, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Calvin Ridley, Week 4 against BAL: 30 of 64 snaps, 2 targets and 1 catch for 13 yards.

Calvin Ridley, Week 5 against HOU: 35 of 63 snaps, 3 targets and 2 catches for 33 yards.

Calvin Ridley, Week 6 against IND: 28 of 46 snaps, 2 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Darnell Mooney played 15 games for ATL and scored 82.3 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR79.

He caught 32 of 72 targets for 443 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets and 370 air yards.

He was on the field for 82 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

In 2025, Calvin Ridley played 7 games for TEN and scored 47.3 PPR points, 6.8 a game, finishing WR116.

He caught 17 of 36 targets for 303 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 1 red zone target and 219 air yards.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 7 calls

• Start Brycen Tremayne over Darnell Mooney.
• Start Darnell Mooney over Cody White.
• Start Darius Cooper over Darnell Mooney.
• Start Calvin Ridley over Bo Melton.
• Start Cody White over Calvin Ridley.
• Start Calvin Ridley over Elic Ayomanor.