Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Ashton Jeanty in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 9:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Ashton Jeanty: 57 percent of the snaps and 29 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s 22 percent of the snaps and 18 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.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB11 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-4
- Overall rank
- 18
RB17 · LV · bye 13
2026 vs carries line 3-5
- Market-based projection
- 13.1 pts a game
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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 18th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Ashton Jeanty, and the board ranks him 28th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 8; 2QB: ADP 25.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 15.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 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.
Ashton Jeanty's market-based projection is 13.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 53rd highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.
Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 22 percent of JAX snaps, 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 8, Ashton Jeanty has been on the field for 66 percent of LV snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 77 third down targets, had 9 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 43 two minute targets.
His 48 targets have averaged 2.1 air yards.
In Week 6 against BUF he carried 10 times for 22 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 36 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against LAR he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 8 of 8 targets for 61 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against NYJ he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 64 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 Ashton Jeanty played 17 games and scored 245.1 PPR points, 14.4 a game, finishing RB11.
He carried 266 times for 975 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 55 of 73 targets for 346 more yards.
That came to 15.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 3.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Ashton Jeanty was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Ashton Jeanty scored 14.4 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 7.3 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 that year and Ashton Jeanty RB11.
Ashton Jeanty had 154 more carries than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 266 to 112.
Ashton Jeanty had 52 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 55 to 3.
This season Ashton Jeanty holds the bigger snap share, 66 percent against 22 percent.
This season Ashton Jeanty holds the bigger share of the carries, 55 percent against 18 percent.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and Ashton Jeanty in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Chris Rodriguez Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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