Should I start Cade Otton or Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 12:06 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Cade Otton: he has been on the field this season, 94 percent of the snaps, and Chris Rodriguez Jr. has no snap on record yet. 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.
TE6 · TB · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 0-8
- Market-based projection
- 8.5 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 40
RB10 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-4
- Overall rank
- 41
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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 Cade Otton, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Cade Otton, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 9.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 10 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.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Cade Otton has been on the field for 94 percent of TB snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 44 two minute targets.
His 30 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.
In Week 5 against DAL he caught 3 of 4 targets for 25 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against PIT he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against CAR he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
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 Cade Otton played 16 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.6 a game, finishing TE22.
He caught 59 of 81 targets for 572 yards and 1 touchdown, with 5 red zone targets.
That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 93 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.
Cade Otton was available for 3 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Cade Otton scored 7.6 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 0.6 a game between them.
Cade Otton finished TE22 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. RB51, which are two different ladders.
Cade Otton is a tight end 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
Cade Otton is off in Week 10 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Both players in full
Week 8 on the board
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