Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Ladd McConkey in Week 8?
Updated Oct 29, 1:26 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Ladd McConkey: 45 percent of the snaps and 8 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.
RB24 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 70
WR30 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 9.6 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 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Ladd McConkey, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes half PPR: ADP 2; standard: ADP 14; 2QB: ADP 35.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 7.1 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.
Ladd McConkey's market-based projection is 9.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 210 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, Ladd McConkey has been on the field for 46 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 18 targets have averaged 13.2 air yards.
In Week 3 against BUF he caught 4 of 5 targets for 66 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against SEA he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against KC he caught 1 of 1 target for 17 yards and did not score.
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 Ladd McConkey played 16 games and scored 180.9 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing WR30.
He caught 66 of 106 targets for 789 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.
That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Ladd McConkey was available for 3 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Ladd McConkey scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 4.2 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 and Ladd McConkey WR30, which are two different ladders.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Ladd McConkey 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.
Ladd McConkey 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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