Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Saquon Barkley: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 13, 2026 at 6:21 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on either of them, 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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RB24 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 65
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
RB26 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 70
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size168 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 Chris Rodriguez Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 14.
What the player markets price
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 5.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market has Saquon Barkley at 4.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 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 so far
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.
Through Week 4, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 38 percent of PHI snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against TEN he carried 4 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against CHI he carried 15 times for 82 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -2 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LAR he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Chris Rodriguez Jr. in the last completed season.
In 2025 Saquon Barkley played 16 games and scored 232.3 PPR points, 14.5 a game, finishing RB14.
He carried 280 times for 1140 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 37 of 50 targets for 273 more yards.
That came to 17.5 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Saquon Barkley holds the bigger snap share, 38 percent against 23 percent.
This season Saquon Barkley holds the bigger share of the carries, 36 percent against 21 percent.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and Saquon Barkley in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Saquon Barkley is listed as out on the injury report.
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