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Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Keon Coleman in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 1:21 PM ET.

Start Keon Coleman: 78 percent of the snaps and 19 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.

RB19 · JAX · bye 7

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Overall rank
50

WR27 · BUF · bye 7

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Market-based projection
7.0 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 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Keon Coleman, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 7.9 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.

Keon Coleman's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 79th highest figure of the 205 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 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, Keon Coleman has been on the field for 68 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 14.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 6 of 7 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 4 of 6 targets for 59 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 Keon Coleman played 13 games and scored 102.4 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR60.

He caught 38 of 59 targets for 404 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 4-5 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 64 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 13 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Keon Coleman scored 7.9 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 0.8 a game between them.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 and Keon Coleman WR60, which are two different ladders.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Keon Coleman a wide receiver, 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.

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.

Should I drop Keon Coleman?

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