Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Michael Penix Jr.: 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 25, 2026 at 3:06 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Michael Penix 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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RB38 · JAX · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 6-7
- Books price
- 4.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB31 · ATL · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 4-5
- Books price
- 12.9 pts a game Wk 3 price
- Overall rank
- 147
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 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 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 175.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Michael Penix Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 138.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 4.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 books. That is the 152nd highest figure of the 176 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Michael Penix Jr., 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.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Michael Penix Jr. this season.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Chris Rodriguez Jr. in the last completed season.
In 2025 Michael Penix Jr. played 9 games and scored 123.3 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB33.
He threw for 1982 yards on 276 attempts with 9 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 70 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 30.7 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Michael Penix Jr. a quarterback, 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 and Michael Penix Jr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Michael Penix Jr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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