Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Emanuel Wilson in Week 8?
Updated Oct 28, 8:21 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Emanuel Wilson: 45 percent of the snaps and 62 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s 22 percent of the snaps and 24 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.
RB14 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 41
RB21 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 3-4
- Market-based projection
- 10.5 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 72
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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 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Emanuel Wilson, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 8.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 6 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.
The market-based projection for Emanuel Wilson is 4.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. 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 so far
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 7, Emanuel Wilson has been on the field for 41 percent of SEA snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 7 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 38 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have come 1.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 5 against SF he carried 20 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against DEN he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against KC he carried 24 times for 100 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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 Emanuel Wilson played 17 games and scored 94.5 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing RB49.
He carried 125 times for 496 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 15 of 17 targets for 99 more yards.
That came to 7.4 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.
He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Emanuel Wilson was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Chris Rodriguez Jr. scored 7.1 PPR points a game and Emanuel Wilson 5.6, 1.5 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 that year and Emanuel Wilson RB49.
Emanuel Wilson had 13 more carries than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 125 to 112.
Emanuel Wilson had 12 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 15 to 3.
This season Emanuel Wilson holds the bigger snap share, 41 percent against 25 percent.
This season Emanuel Wilson holds the bigger share of the carries, 55 percent against 24 percent.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and Emanuel Wilson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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