Calvin Ridley

Week 16 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The good news is that Calvin Ridley had his third game with at least five receptions in his last five outings in Week 15. The bad news is that these receptions only brought him 39 yards. Over his last two games, Ridley has seen 25 targets, resulting in nine grabs for 92 yards. His 6.4 Half-PPR points were enough to finish as the WR48 last week.

If you wanted a team for a wide receiver to play against when fantasy playoffs are in full swing, you would ask for the Buccaneers, given that they rank dead last in aFPA to wideouts. But when that wide receiver is grossly inefficient, and is likely to be trusting C.J. Beathard to get him the ball, your expectations should be seriously tempered. Ridley projects to be a mid-tier WR3 play this week.

Week 14 at Cleveland Browns

Calvin Ridley saw a decent workload in Week 13, seeing eight targets for the second most on the team. But he caught only four of them for 26 yards, giving him 5.3 Half-PPR points and a WR45 finish.

The whole Jaguars offense has to be downgraded from a fantasy viewpoint with Trevor Lawrence out of the lineup. The Browns rank 15th in aFPA to wide receivers this season, but that's not enough to project Ridley as anything more than a low-end WR3 this week.

Week 12 at Houston Texans

What a week that was for Calvin Ridley, with seven grabs for 103 yards and two touchdowns against the Titans. Ridley finished as the WR1 in Half PPR formats, a long way ahead of his WR31 ranking in average points per game.

Ridley has played himself into solid WR2 territory with his Week 11 deeds, and that's where he should be ranked for the clash with the Texans. The Texans are not great, nor are they bad against wide receivers in 2023, ranking 16th in aFPA to the position. But if Week 11 marks the turning of a corner for Ridley, then it will be hard to not start him this week.