Should I start Pat Freiermuth or Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 12:16 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Pat Freiermuth: 60 percent of the snaps and 10 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s 34 percent of the snaps and 26 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.
TE16 · PIT · bye 9
2026 vs anytime td line 4-4
- Market-based projection
- 6.5 pts a game
RB47 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 4-4
- Market-based projection
- 8.5 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 141
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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 Pat Freiermuth, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Pat Freiermuth's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 86th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 2.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back'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 8, Pat Freiermuth has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 44 two minute targets.
His 35 targets have averaged 8.5 air yards.
In Week 6 against TB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against NO he caught 2 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against CLE he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 9, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 34 percent of JAX snaps, taken 26 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 14 third down targets, had 2 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 1.3 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.
In Week 9 against BAL he carried 10 times for 19 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Pat Freiermuth played 17 games and scored 113.6 PPR points, 6.7 a game, finishing TE25.
He caught 41 of 54 targets for 486 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 49 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.
Pat Freiermuth was available for 4 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Chris Rodriguez Jr. scored 7.1 PPR points a game and Pat Freiermuth 6.7, 0.4 a game between them.
Pat Freiermuth finished TE25 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. RB51, which are two different ladders.
Pat Freiermuth is a tight end 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
Pat Freiermuth is off in Week 9 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
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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