Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Dallas Goedert in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dallas Goedert, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Dallas Goedert is 2.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end'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 through Week 6

Through Week 6, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 25 percent of JAX snaps, taken 24 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 43 third down targets, had 4 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against HOU he carried 11 times for 55 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Dallas Goedert has been on the field for 65 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.

In Week 2 against TEN he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against JAX he caught 6 of 9 targets for 38 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CAR he caught 6 of 8 targets for 61 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chris Rodriguez Jr. played 13 games and scored 92.0 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing RB51.

He carried 112 times for 500 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 4 targets for 30 more yards.

That came to 8.6 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Dallas Goedert played 15 games and scored 185.1 PPR points, 12.3 a game, finishing TE7.

He caught 60 of 82 targets for 591 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 5-6 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dallas Goedert was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Dallas Goedert scored 12.3 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 5.3 a game between them.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 and Dallas Goedert TE7, which are two different ladders.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Dallas Goedert a tight end, 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 Dallas Goedert in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.