Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Joe Burrow in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 2:21 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Joe Burrow: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s 22 percent of the snaps and 18 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.
RB10 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-4
- Overall rank
- 25
QB1 · CIN · bye 6
2026 vs pass yds line 4-3
- Overall rank
- 26
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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 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Joe Burrow, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 10.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 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 Joe Burrow is 22.9 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback'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 been on the field for 22 percent of JAX snaps, 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, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 99 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 289 times and thrown 7.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 51 of 289 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.
In Week 5 against MIA he completed 23 of 32 passes for 190 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.
In Week 7 against BAL he completed 22 of 30 passes for 292 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.
In Week 8 against TEN he completed 38 of 48 passes for 462 yards, threw 5 touchdowns and 3 interceptions and ran 3 times for 10 yards.
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 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.
He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. was available for 5 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Joe Burrow scored 17.4 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 10.4 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 and Joe Burrow QB29, which are two different ladders.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Joe Burrow a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and Joe Burrow in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.
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