Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Emari Demercado: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 26, 2026 at 5:16 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Emari Demercado, 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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RB44 · JAX · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 6-7
- Books price
- 4.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB · DAL · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 1-12
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Chris Rodriguez Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 154th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 174.
Our board does not carry Emari Demercado at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and the sportsbooks have no priced market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 4.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 books. That is the 157th highest figure of the 170 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Emari Demercado, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 2
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.
Through Week 2, Emari Demercado has been on the field for 12 percent of DAL snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.
In Week 1 against NYG he carried 2 times for 7 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against WAS he carried 3 times for 8 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Chris Rodriguez Jr. in the last completed season.
In 2025 Emari Demercado played 13 games and scored 58.3 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing RB65.
He carried 44 times for 312 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 13 of 20 targets for 101 more yards.
That came to 3.4 carries a game at 7.1 yards a carry and 1.0 catches a game.
He was on the field for 23 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Chris Rodriguez Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 12 percent.
This season Chris Rodriguez Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 23 percent against 13 percent.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Emari Demercado.
What would change the answer
Emari Demercado has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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