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Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Drake London in Week 9?

Updated Nov 4, 8:16 AM ET.

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Start Drake London: 91 percent of the snaps and 30 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s 22 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB11 · JAX · bye 7

2026 vs carries line 3-4

Overall rank
17

WR7 · ATL · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 1-7

Market-based projection
16.7 pts a game

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 17th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drake London, and the board ranks him 18th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 15.3 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.

Drake London's market-based projection is 16.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 21st highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 22 percent of JAX snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 5 third down targets.

His 1 target have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 8 against IND he carried 6 times for 41 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Drake London has been on the field for 89 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 29 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 23 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 62 targets have averaged 10.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 4 of 10 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 7 of 10 targets for 66 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TB he caught 1 of 6 targets for 8 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 Drake London played 12 games and scored 201.9 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing WR19.

He caught 68 of 112 targets for 919 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 9.3 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 14 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 90 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Drake London scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 9.7 a game between them.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 and Drake London WR19, which are two different ladders.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Drake London a wide receiver, 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 Drake London in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Chris Rodriguez Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Both players in full

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