Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Jahmyr Gibbs in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 3:51 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Jahmyr Gibbs: Listed Questionable (Shoulder) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Jahmyr Gibbs: he has been on the field this season, 82 percent of the snaps, and Chris Rodriguez Jr. has no snap on record yet. 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.
RB10 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-4
- Overall rank
- 41
RB12 · DET · bye 6
2026 vs carries line 5-2
- Market-based projection
- 23.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 44
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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 Jahmyr Gibbs, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 1; 2QB: ADP 1.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 9.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 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 Jahmyr Gibbs is 8.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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 through Week 8
Through Week 8, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has 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, Jahmyr Gibbs has been on the field for 79 percent of DET snaps, taken 80 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 51 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 14 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 44 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.
In Week 5 against ARI he carried 25 times for 151 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 56 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 7 against GB he carried 29 times for 116 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 27 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against MIN he carried 23 times for 153 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets 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 Jahmyr Gibbs played 17 games and scored 366.9 PPR points, 21.6 a game, finishing RB3.
He carried 243 times for 1223 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 77 of 94 targets for 616 more yards.
That came to 14.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 4-5 catches a game.
He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jahmyr Gibbs was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs scored 21.6 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 14.5 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 that year and Jahmyr Gibbs RB3.
Jahmyr Gibbs had 131 more carries than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 243 to 112.
Jahmyr Gibbs had 74 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 77 to 3.
This season Jahmyr Gibbs holds the bigger share of the carries, 80 percent against 18 percent.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and Jahmyr Gibbs in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Both players in full
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