Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Jeremy McNichols in Week 8?
Updated Oct 28, 4:26 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Chris Rodriguez Jr.: 22 percent of the snaps and 24 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jeremy McNichols's 18 percent of the snaps and 31 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.
RB23 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 60
RB25 · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 1-16
- 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 Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
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.
The market-based projection for Jeremy McNichols is 6.8 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.
Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 6
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 6, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 18 percent of WAS snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.
In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 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 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.
He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.
That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 33 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jeremy McNichols was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Chris Rodriguez Jr. scored 7.1 PPR points a game and Jeremy McNichols 4.3, 2.8 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 that year and Jeremy McNichols RB58.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. had 68 more carries than Jeremy McNichols, 112 to 44.
Jeremy McNichols had 22 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 25 to 3.
This season Chris Rodriguez Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 25 percent against 18 percent.
This season Jeremy McNichols holds the bigger share of the carries, 31 percent against 24 percent.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Jeremy McNichols.
Both players in full
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