Sam Darnold or Chris Rodriguez 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 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Sam Darnold, 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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QB30 · SEA · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 147
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
RB40 · JAX · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 6-7
- Books price
- 4.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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 Sam Darnold: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 62.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Chris Rodriguez Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 175.
What the sportsbooks price
The books have Sam Darnold at 13.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 10 books. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The player markets price Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 4.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 books. That is the 162nd highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
Sam Darnold's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 1, Sam Darnold has been on the field for 10 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 3 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 1 of 3 dropbacks.
In Week 1 against NE he completed 1 of 2 passes for 13 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Sam Darnold played 17 games and scored 249.4 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing QB13.
He threw for 4048 yards on 477 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 14 interceptions, and ran for 95 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 28.1 attempts a game at 8.5 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 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
Sam Darnold 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
Sam Darnold is off in Week 11 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Sam Darnold is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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