Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Michael Wilson in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 10:11 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Michael Wilson: 88 percent of the snaps and 18 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.
RB33 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 95
WR37 · ARI · bye 14
2026 vs anytime td line 1-6
- Market-based projection
- 11.6 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 96
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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 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Michael Wilson, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 3.4 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.
The market-based projection for Michael Wilson is 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver'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 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 7, Michael Wilson has been on the field for 90 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 18 of the offence's 76 third down targets, had 7 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 17 of its 45 two minute targets.
His 66 targets have averaged 10.3 air yards.
In Week 5 against DET he caught 4 of 7 targets for 30 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against LAR he caught 4 of 7 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against DEN he carried 2 times for 11 yards, caught 4 of 8 targets for 55 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 Michael Wilson played 17 games and scored 220.6 PPR points, 13.0 a game, finishing WR10.
He caught 78 of 126 targets for 1006 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.
That came to 7.4 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Michael Wilson was available for 4 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Michael Wilson scored 13.0 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 5.9 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 and Michael Wilson WR10, which are two different ladders.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Michael Wilson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and Michael Wilson in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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