Dalton Schultz or Chris Rodriguez Jr.: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Chris Rodriguez Jr., so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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TE12 · HOU · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market-based projection
- 7.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB30 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 90
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size195 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Dalton Schultz: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Chris Rodriguez Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Dalton Schultz's market-based projection is 7.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 88th highest figure of the 152 players with a market-based projection.
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 4.8 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 through Week 5
Through Week 5, Dalton Schultz has been on the field for 61 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 31 targets have averaged 6.5 air yards.
In Week 3 against IND he caught 3 of 3 targets for 30 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against TEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 30 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 23 percent of JAX snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 3 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 2.0 air yards.
In Week 3 against NE he carried 8 times for 37 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against CIN he carried 6 times for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against PHI he carried 2 times for 5 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Dalton Schultz played 17 games and scored 177.7 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE10.
He caught 82 of 106 targets for 777 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 6.2 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 72 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
Dalton Schultz 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
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Dalton Schultz.
What would change the answer
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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