Should I start Jacoby Brissett or Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 8?
Updated Oct 28, 6:16 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jacoby Brissett: 100 percent of the snaps and 1 percent of the targets 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.
QB6 · ARI · bye 14
2026 vs pass yds line 4-3
- Overall rank
- 63
RB25 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 64
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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 Jacoby Brissett, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 44.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Jacoby Brissett is 18.9 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 6 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 7.0 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.
Jacoby Brissett's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Jacoby Brissett has been on the field for 100 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 302 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 51 of 302 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.
In Week 5 against DET he completed 29 of 46 passes for 292 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 19 yards.
In Week 6 against LAR he completed 24 of 35 passes for 218 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
In Week 7 against DEN he completed 27 of 48 passes for 272 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 16 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jacoby Brissett played 14 games and scored 235.4 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB16.
He threw for 3366 yards on 485 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 168 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 34.6 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Jacoby Brissett was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jacoby Brissett scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 9.7 a game between them.
Jacoby Brissett finished QB16 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. RB51, which are two different ladders.
Jacoby Brissett is a quarterback and Chris Rodriguez Jr. a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jacoby Brissett is off in Week 14 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
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