Justin Herbert 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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QB27 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs pass yds line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 13.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB45 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 140
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
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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 Justin Herbert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 12.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Chris Rodriguez Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Justin Herbert's market-based projection is 13.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 59th highest figure of the 184 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, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 175 times and thrown 8.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 175 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.
In Week 3 against BUF he completed 20 of 34 passes for 226 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 17 yards.
In Week 4 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 189 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 6 times for 40 yards.
In Week 5 against DEN he completed 14 of 23 passes for 121 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 54 yards.
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 Justin Herbert played 16 games and scored 299.9 PPR points, 18.7 a game, finishing QB10.
He threw for 3727 yards on 512 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and ran for 498 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 32.0 attempts a game at 7.3 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
Justin Herbert 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
Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
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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