Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or AJ Barner in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 12:21 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start AJ Barner: he has been on the field this season, 89 percent of the snaps, and Chris Rodriguez Jr. has no snap on record yet. 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.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB10 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-4
- Overall rank
- 41
TE7 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 1-7
- Market-based projection
- 8.2 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 42
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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 Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 9.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 10 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No season market is posted for AJ Barner, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 5 third down targets.
His 1 target have averaged 3.0 air yards.
In Week 8 against IND he carried 6 times for 41 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 7, AJ Barner has been on the field for 88 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 3 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 38 two minute targets.
His 29 targets have averaged 2.1 air yards.
In Week 5 against SF he caught 3 of 5 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against DEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against KC he carried 3 times for 4 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 42 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Chris Rodriguez Jr. played 13 games and scored 92.0 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing RB51.
He carried 112 times for 500 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 4 targets for 30 more yards.
That came to 8.6 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 AJ Barner played 17 games and scored 147.3 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE14.
He caught 52 of 68 targets for 519 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.
That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
AJ Barner was available for 4 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 AJ Barner scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 1.6 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 and AJ Barner TE14, which are two different ladders.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and AJ Barner a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and AJ Barner in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Both players in full
Week 8 on the board
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