Should I start Jordan Addison or Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 8?
Updated Oct 28, 3:32 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jordan Addison: 93 percent of the snaps and 22 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR22 · MIN · bye 6
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 8.8 pts a game
RB14 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 40
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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 Jordan Addison, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Jordan Addison's market-based projection is 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 64th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.
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.
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 7, Jordan Addison has been on the field for 90 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 12 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 10 two minute targets.
His 25 targets have averaged 13.2 air yards.
In Week 3 against TB he caught 5 of 9 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against MIA he carried 1 time for -1 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 52 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against IND he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
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 Jordan Addison played 14 games and scored 135.1 PPR points, 9.7 a game, finishing WR45.
He caught 42 of 79 targets for 610 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.
That came to 5.6 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 15 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 85 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.
Jordan Addison was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jordan Addison scored 9.7 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 2.6 a game between them.
Jordan Addison finished WR45 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. RB51, which are two different ladders.
Jordan Addison is a wide receiver 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
Jordan Addison is off in Week 6 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Chris Rodriguez Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 8 on the board
- Is Jordan Addison playing Week 8?
- Is Chris Rodriguez Jr. playing Week 8?
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- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 8
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
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