Start Calvin Ridley or Ted Hurst III? Week 7

Our Week 7 call

Start Ted Hurst III over Calvin Ridley in Week 7.

Market-based projections have Ted Hurst III at 4.0 points and Calvin Ridley at 3.8, a gap of 0.2. 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 Ted Hurst III this week yet, so his 4.0 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 4, 5 and 6 (4.3, 4.3 and 3.5); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 7 player market is posted for Ted Hurst III yet. His market-based projections were 4.3, 4.3 and 3.5 points in Weeks 4, 5 and 6, an average of 4.0, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.

The market-based projection for Ted Hurst III is 0.2 touchdowns (12 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 Ted Hurst III 0.2 points ahead of Calvin Ridley on these projections.

Week 7 matchups

Ted Hurst III and TB visit CAR on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

CAR allowed 29.4 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 5 games, the 8th fewest in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 148 yards and 0.4 touchdowns a game against CAR.

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, Calvin Ridley has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Ted Hurst III is not on the injury report.

Calvin Ridley is listed as questionable with a hip injury.

Usage before Week 7

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, 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 Ted Hurst III.
• Start Ted Hurst III over Cody White.
• Start Darius Cooper over Ted Hurst III.
• Start Calvin Ridley over Bo Melton.
• Start Cody White over Calvin Ridley.
• Start Darnell Mooney over Calvin Ridley.