Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Parker Washington in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 23rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Parker Washington, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 18.

The market-based projections

The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 14.0 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.

Parker Washington's market-based projection is 13.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 41st 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, Parker Washington has been on the field for 75 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 16 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 48 targets have averaged 12.9 air yards.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 6 of 9 targets for 124 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against HOU he caught 4 of 11 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against IND he carried 1 time for 10 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 16 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 Parker Washington played 16 games and scored 184.7 PPR points, 11.5 a game, finishing WR27.

He caught 58 of 95 targets for 847 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Parker Washington was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Parker Washington scored 11.5 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 4.5 a game between them.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 and Parker Washington WR27, which are two different ladders.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Parker Washington 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.

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.