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Should I start Aaron Rodgers or Tony Pollard in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 12:36 PM ET.

Start Aaron Rodgers: 99 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tony Pollard's 57 percent of the snaps and 74 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Tony Pollard for Aaron Rodgers?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Aaron Rodgers projects 145 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.5 a game over 10 games), Tony Pollard 99 (9.9 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

QB12 · PIT · bye 9

2026 vs pass yds line 5-1

Market-based projection
15.3 pts a game

RB30 · TEN · bye 9

2026 vs carries line 4-2

Market-based projection
11.2 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
88

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Aaron Rodgers, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tony Pollard, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Aaron Rodgers's market-based projection is 15.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 17th highest figure of the 182 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tony Pollard is 3.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Aaron Rodgers has been on the field for 99 percent of PIT snaps, dropped back 252 times and thrown 7.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 42 of 252 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 4 against CLE he completed 22 of 40 passes for 299 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

In Week 5 against IND he completed 22 of 31 passes for 235 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.

In Week 6 against TB he completed 33 of 47 passes for 253 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

Through Week 6, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 55 percent of TEN snaps, taken 67 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 41 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 6 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 1.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 16 times for 48 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 2 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against HOU he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he carried 19 times for 76 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Aaron Rodgers played 16 games and scored 234.1 PPR points, 14.6 a game, finishing QB18.

He threw for 3322 yards on 498 attempts with 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 61 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 31.1 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tony Pollard played 17 games and scored 185.8 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing RB23.

He carried 242 times for 1082 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 41 targets for 206 more yards.

That came to 14.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tony Pollard was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Aaron Rodgers scored 14.6 PPR points a game and Tony Pollard 10.9, 3.7 a game between them.

Aaron Rodgers finished QB18 and Tony Pollard RB23, which are two different ladders.

Aaron Rodgers is a quarterback and Tony Pollard a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 9, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Tony Pollard for Aaron Rodgers?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Aaron Rodgers projects 145 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.5 a game over 10 games), Tony Pollard 99 (9.9 a game over 10 games).

  • Should I drop Aaron Rodgers for Tony Pollard?

    No. Keep Aaron Rodgers: he projects 145 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.5 a game over 10 games), Tony Pollard 99 (9.9 a game over 10 games).

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