Should I start Bhayshul Tuten or Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bhayshul Tuten, and the board ranks him 28th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Bhayshul Tuten's market-based projection is 13.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 17th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 9.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 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.

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, Bhayshul Tuten has been on the field for 56 percent of JAX snaps, taken 57 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 32 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 5 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 3.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against PHI he carried 22 times for 72 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against HOU he carried 12 times for 39 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 48 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against IND he carried 16 times for 104 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 55 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Bhayshul Tuten played 15 games and scored 88.6 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing RB53.

He carried 83 times for 307 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 14 targets for 79 more yards.

That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 21 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.

Bhayshul Tuten was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Chris Rodriguez Jr. scored 7.1 PPR points a game and Bhayshul Tuten 5.9, 1.2 a game between them.

Bhayshul Tuten finished RB53 that year and Chris Rodriguez Jr. RB51.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. had 29 more carries than Bhayshul Tuten, 112 to 83.

Bhayshul Tuten had 7 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 10 to 3.

This season Bhayshul Tuten holds the bigger share of the carries, 57 percent against 18 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Bhayshul Tuten is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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.