Gunnar Helm 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.
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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TE23 · TEN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market-based projection
- 5.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB40 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 135
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size217 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.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Gunnar Helm: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 134th 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 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 5.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 127th highest figure of the 174 players with a market-based projection.
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 4.4 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, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 77 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 4.3 air yards.
In Week 3 against NYG he caught 2 of 4 targets for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against HOU he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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 Gunnar Helm played 16 games and scored 91.7 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE31.
He caught 44 of 55 targets for 357 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 8.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 53 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
Gunnar Helm 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 Gunnar Helm.
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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