Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or J.K. Dobbins in Week 8?
Updated Oct 28, 3:17 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start J.K. Dobbins: 42 percent of the snaps and 51 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
- 40
RB15 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 3-4
- Overall rank
- 50
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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 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on J.K. Dobbins, and the board ranks him 50th 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 3 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 has J.K. Dobbins at 7.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 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 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, J.K. Dobbins has been on the field for 41 percent of DEN snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 8 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have come 1.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 5 against LAC he carried 18 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against SEA he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against ARI he carried 6 times for 23 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 J.K. Dobbins played 10 games and scored 115.9 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing RB43.
He carried 153 times for 772 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 11 of 14 targets for 37 more yards.
That came to 15.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 J.K. Dobbins scored 11.6 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 4.5 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 that year and J.K. Dobbins RB43.
J.K. Dobbins had 41 more carries than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 153 to 112.
J.K. Dobbins had 8 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 11 to 3.
This season J.K. Dobbins holds the bigger snap share, 41 percent against 25 percent.
This season J.K. Dobbins holds the bigger share of the carries, 52 percent against 24 percent.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and J.K. Dobbins in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
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