Should I start Rico Dowdle or Chris Rodriguez Jr. 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.
Week 6 verdict
Start Rico Dowdle over Chris Rodriguez Jr.
- Market projects
- 5.9
- fantasy pts
- TB D vs RB
- 16.9
- 5th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 42%
- Through Week 2
- Target share
- 9%
- Through Week 2
- Market projects
- 4.2
- fantasy pts
- HOU D vs RB
- 16.7
- 4th fewest to RBs (2026)
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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RB42 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs rush yds line 6-11
- Market-based projection
- 5.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB48 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 165
- 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 size317 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 Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 145th 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 165th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 131st highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 4.2 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 so far
Through Week 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.
In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 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 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.
He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.
That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Chris Rodriguez Jr. in the last completed season.
Head to head
This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger snap share, 42 percent against 23 percent.
This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger share of the carries, 37 percent against 21 percent.
Byes and availability
Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.
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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