Should I start Austin Ekeler or Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 12:21 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Chris Rodriguez Jr.: 34 percent of the snaps and 26 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Austin Ekeler's 29 percent of the snaps and 28 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.
RB12 · WAS · bye 7
- Market-based projection
- 6.5 pts a game
RB33 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 4-4
- Market-based projection
- 8.5 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 96
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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 Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 37th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 3.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Austin Ekeler has been on the field for 25 percent of WAS snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 6 against SF he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against PHI he carried 8 times for 36 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against LAR he carried 8 times for 16 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and did not score.
Through Week 9, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 34 percent of JAX snaps, taken 26 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 14 third down targets, had 2 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 1.3 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.
In Week 9 against BAL he carried 10 times for 19 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Austin Ekeler played 2 games and scored 13.1 PPR points, 6.6 a game, finishing RB103.
He carried 14 times for 43 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 7 targets for 38 more yards.
That came to 7.0 carries a game at 3.1 yards a carry and 2-3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. was available for 11 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Chris Rodriguez Jr. scored 7.1 PPR points a game and Austin Ekeler 6.6, 0.5 a game between them.
Austin Ekeler finished RB103 that year and Chris Rodriguez Jr. RB51.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. had 98 more carries than Austin Ekeler, 112 to 14.
Austin Ekeler had 2 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 5 to 3.
This season Chris Rodriguez Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 34 percent against 25 percent.
This season Chris Rodriguez Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 26 percent against 21 percent.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
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
Week 10 on the board
- Is Austin Ekeler playing Week 10?
- Is Chris Rodriguez Jr. playing Week 10?
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- Week 10 RB rankings
- Week 10 fantasy rankings
- Week 10 start or sit
- Week 10 waiver wire
- Week 10 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 10
- Waiver wire pickups
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- Rest of season rankings
- Week 10 kicker rankings
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