Rashod Bateman or Chris Rodriguez Jr.: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rashod Bateman: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 165th 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 166th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Rashod Bateman at 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 159th highest figure of the 212 players the market prices.

The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 5.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is 90 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, Rashod Bateman has been on the field for 76 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 13.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against NO he caught 7 of 9 targets for 88 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against DAL he caught 2 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TEN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

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 Rashod Bateman played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing WR102.

He caught 19 of 38 targets for 224 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 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

Rashod Bateman is a wide receiver 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

Rashod Bateman 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.