Should I start Brock Purdy or Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 6:41 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Brock Purdy: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets 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.
QB2 · SF · bye 8
2026 vs pass yds line 4-3
- Market-based projection
- 22.0 pts a game
RB22 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-4
- Overall rank
- 44
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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 Brock Purdy, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Brock Purdy's market-based projection is 22.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 4th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 12.4 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.
Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 98 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 231 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 26 of 231 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.
In Week 5 against SEA he completed 19 of 29 passes for 189 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 8 yards.
In Week 6 against WAS he completed 21 of 29 passes for 264 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 28 yards.
In Week 7 against ATL he completed 27 of 39 passes for 288 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Brock Purdy played 9 games and scored 187.4 PPR points, 20.8 a game, finishing QB24.
He threw for 2167 yards on 284 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns.
That came to 31.6 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 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 4 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 13.7 a game between them.
Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. RB51, which are two different ladders.
Brock Purdy is a quarterback 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
Brock Purdy is off in Week 8 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
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 9 on the board
- Is Brock Purdy playing Week 9?
- Is Chris Rodriguez Jr. playing Week 9?
- 49ers depth chart
- Jaguars depth chart
- Week 9 QB rankings
- Week 9 RB rankings
- Week 9 fantasy rankings
- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
- Week 9 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 9
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 9 kicker rankings
- Week 9 defense rankings
