Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Evan Engram: 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.
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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RB46 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 142
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
TE25 · DEN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 5.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size226 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 Chris Rodriguez Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Evan Engram: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 4.5 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.
Evan Engram's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 127th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based 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, 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.
Through Week 5, Evan Engram has been on the field for 58 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.
In Week 3 against LAR he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAC he caught 4 of 4 targets for 55 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 Evan Engram played 16 games and scored 102.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing TE29.
He caught 50 of 76 targets for 461 yards and 1 touchdown, with 10 red zone targets.
That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 42 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Evan Engram a tight end, 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 Evan Engram.
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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