Geno Smith or Chris Rodriguez Jr.: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Geno Smith: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 122nd 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 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Geno Smith at 14.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 45th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 6.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 14 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Geno Smith has been on the field for 100 percent of NYJ snaps, dropped back 136 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 136 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.

In Week 2 against GB he completed 27 of 40 passes for 247 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 17 yards.

In Week 3 against DET he completed 31 of 37 passes for 321 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

In Week 4 against CHI he completed 8 of 15 passes for 119 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

Through Week 4, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 27 percent of JAX snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 11 two minute targets.

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

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Geno Smith played 15 games and scored 190.9 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing QB23.

He threw for 3025 yards on 448 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 17 interceptions, and ran for 109 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 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

Geno Smith 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

Geno Smith is off in Week 13 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.