Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Dylan Sampson in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 11:56 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Dylan Sampson: 55 percent of the snaps and 20 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s 34 percent of the snaps and 26 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB33 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 4-4
- Market-based projection
- 8.5 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 96
RB53 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 2-2
- Market-based projection
- 7.2 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 206
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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 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 206th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 3.4 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 Dylan Sampson is 1.2 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.
Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 34 percent of JAX snaps, taken 26 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 14 third down targets, had 2 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 1.3 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.
In Week 9 against BAL he carried 10 times for 19 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 9, Dylan Sampson has been on the field for 55 percent of CLE snaps, taken 20 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 7 against TEN he carried 6 times for 45 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against PIT he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 62 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against NO he carried 8 times for 21 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 27 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 Dylan Sampson played 15 games and scored 87.6 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing RB55.
He carried 65 times for 175 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 271 more yards.
That came to 4.3 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 25 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Dylan Sampson was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Chris Rodriguez Jr. scored 7.1 PPR points a game and Dylan Sampson 5.8, 1.2 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 that year and Dylan Sampson RB55.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. had 47 more carries than Dylan Sampson, 112 to 65.
Dylan Sampson had 30 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 33 to 3.
This season Dylan Sampson holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 34 percent.
This season Chris Rodriguez Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 26 percent against 20 percent.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and Dylan Sampson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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