AJ Barner or Chris Rodriguez Jr.: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on AJ Barner: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 134th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Chris Rodriguez Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price AJ Barner at 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 6.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 14 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, AJ Barner has been on the field for 87 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 3 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 2.3 air yards.

In Week 2 against ARI he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against WAS he caught 5 of 9 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 27 percent of JAX snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 11 two minute targets.

In Week 2 against DEN he carried 6 times for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NE he carried 8 times for 37 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CIN he carried 6 times for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

The season feed carries no line for Chris Rodriguez Jr. in the last completed season.

Side by side

AJ Barner is a tight end and Chris Rodriguez Jr. a running back, 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. No bye is listed for AJ Barner.

What would change the answer

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.