Should I start Bucky Irving or Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 4:51 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Bucky Irving: 66 percent of the snaps and 55 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB11 · TB · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 7-1
- Overall rank
- 16
RB14 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-4
- Overall rank
- 19
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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 Bucky Irving, and the board ranks him 16th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 19th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Bucky Irving is 15.4 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.
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 14.0 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.
Bucky Irving's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 63 percent of TB snaps, taken 57 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 45 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 6 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 44 two minute targets.
His 23 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 6 against PIT he carried 19 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against CAR he carried 24 times for 106 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 8 against ATL he carried 27 times for 170 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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 Bucky Irving played 10 games and scored 138.5 PPR points, 13.9 a game, finishing RB34.
He carried 173 times for 588 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 35 targets for 277 more yards.
That came to 17.3 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.
He was on the field for 62 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 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Bucky Irving scored 13.9 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 6.8 a game between them.
Bucky Irving finished RB34 that year and Chris Rodriguez Jr. RB51.
Bucky Irving had 61 more carries than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 173 to 112.
Bucky Irving had 27 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 30 to 3.
This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger snap share, 63 percent against 22 percent.
This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger share of the carries, 57 percent against 18 percent.
Byes and availability
Bucky Irving is off in Week 10 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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