Eli Raridon

New England Patriots · Tight endTE2

6′6″, 245 lb · age 22 · Notre Dame · 2026 draft, round 3

Week 6 stats

Sun Oct 18, vs NYJ: Eli Raridon caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards on 57% of snaps.

Stats through week 6; the week 7 projection below. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Full game log.

Eli Raridon has no full prior season to anchor to, so this week’s projection leans on his 4 games of current-season usage alone — treat it as a thinner read than a veteran’s.

Week 7 projection

PPR points

5.7

TE30 this week

Receptions

2.0

Receiving yards

Anytime TD

18%

He is used near the goal line, a role that runs slightly ahead of trailing form: +0.13 receptions.

What a realistic week looks like

The projection is the center of this, not a prediction of one number. Eight weeks in ten he lands between 0 and 4 receptions. The shaded bars are that range. This distribution is calibrated — predicted against realized agrees within 0.012 in every decile across 49,202 checks.

Eli Raridon snap share, game by game

Snap shareTarget share

Role is the most repeatable thing a player has. Snap share reproduces at 0.96 between halves of a season; receptions manage 0.89 and touchdowns 0.56. When these lines move, production follows — not the other way round. Snap share leaders.

Game log

Game	Opp	Snap share	Target share	Tgt	Rec	Rec yds	TD	We said
26 wk7	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0 projected
26 wk6	NYJ	57%	10.0%	3	1	11	0	2.0 -1.0
26 wk5	LV	57%	16.1%	5	5	57	0	1.2 +3.8
26 wk4	BUF	58%	5.6%	2	1	12	0	0.7 +0.3
26 wk2	PIT	20%	4.8%	1	1	30	0	—
26 wk1	SEA	54%	3.2%	1	1	2	1	—

“We said” is the projection as it was published that week, stored before the game, with the miss beside it. Re-running today’s model on a past week would grade a model that did not exist when the number went out, so those weeks show a dash instead.

Eli Raridon 2026 stats

Through 5 games of 2026, Eli Raridon has 9 catches for 112 receiving yards (1.8 catches and 22.4 yards a game), with 1 touchdown, on 49% of snaps.

His first season in the warehouse, so there is no prior year to compare against and no career arc to draw — the projection leans on the league's rookies rather than on him.

	2026 so far (5 games)
Catches per game	1.8
Receiving yards per game	22.4
Target share	7.9%

If Eli Raridon sits, who gets his work?The measured redistribution across the NE room — with sample size and t-statistic The whole New England Patriots roomEvery pass-catcher ranked by the usage that predicts production

Related players

The rest of the New England Patriots tight end room, by target share.

Ranked next to him at TE for week 7.

Mike Gesicki TE27 · CIN
Greg Dulcich TE28 · MIA
Tommy Tremble TE29 · CAR
Kenyon Sadiq TE31 · NYJ
Mason Taylor TE32 · NYJ
Evan Engram TE33 · DEN

What we have measured about tight ends

Does a new head coach change who gets the ball?It changes WHO, not how much Is any defense actually “weak against tight ends”?Not a real trait

Projections are as-of-week with no lookahead · usage from official play-by-play and snap counts · 2026 week 7