Cam Ward or Chris Rodriguez Jr.: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Cam Ward at 12.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 books. That is the 64th highest figure of the 176 players the books price.

The player markets price Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 4.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 books. That is the 152nd highest figure of the 176 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cam Ward: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 105.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Chris Rodriguez Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 175.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Cam Ward has been on the field for 100 percent of TEN snaps, dropped back 63 times and thrown 6.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 63 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 1 against NYJ he completed 19 of 32 passes for 140 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 21 yards.

In Week 2 against PHI he completed 13 of 20 passes for 183 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 7 yards.

Through Week 2, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 31 percent of JAX snaps, taken 23 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 9 third down targets, had 1 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

In Week 1 against CLE he carried 6 times for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against DEN he carried 6 times for 13 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Cam Ward played 17 games and scored 193.7 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing QB22.

He threw for 3169 yards on 540 attempts with 15 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 159 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 31.8 attempts a game at 5.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

The season feed carries no line for Chris Rodriguez Jr. in the last completed season.

Side by side

Cam Ward 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

Cam Ward is off in Week 9 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.0 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.