Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Josh Allen in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 10:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Josh Allen: 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB20 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-4
- Overall rank
- 37
QB1 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 8-2
- Market-based projection
- 22.4 pts a game
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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 37th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Allen, and the board ranks him 38th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 10.9 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.
Josh Allen's market-based projection is 22.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 4th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based 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, Josh Allen has been on the field for 99 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 237 times and thrown 9.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 237 dropbacks and scrambled 19 times.
In Week 5 against LAR he completed 12 of 19 passes for 210 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 10 times for 121 yards.
In Week 6 against LV he completed 23 of 33 passes for 255 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 4 yards.
In Week 8 against BAL he completed 21 of 34 passes for 289 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 7 times for 30 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 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.
He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.
That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Josh Allen was available for 4 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 15.0 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 and Josh Allen QB1, which are two different ladders.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Josh Allen a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.
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
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