Should I start Malik Willis or Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 6:01 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Malik Willis: 100 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 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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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.
QB11 · MIA · bye 6
2026 vs pass yds line 4-2
- Market-based projection
- 12.9 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 82
RB28 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 84
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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 Malik Willis, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 38.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Malik Willis is 1.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Malik Willis's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 188 times and thrown 9.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 26 of 188 dropbacks and scrambled 22 times.
In Week 4 against MIN he completed 9 of 17 passes for 85 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 11 yards.
In Week 5 against CIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 137 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 8 times for 74 yards.
In Week 7 against NYJ he completed 14 of 21 passes for 208 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 39 yards.
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 Malik Willis played 4 games and scored 51.2 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing QB45.
He threw for 422 yards on 35 attempts with 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 8.8 attempts a game at 12.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 10 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.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. was available for 9 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Malik Willis scored 12.8 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 5.7 a game between them.
Malik Willis finished QB45 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. RB51, which are two different ladders.
Malik Willis is a quarterback 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
Malik Willis is off in Week 6 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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