Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Ray Davis in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 7:06 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Chris Rodriguez Jr.: 22 percent of the snaps and 24 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Ray Davis's 12 percent of the snaps and 5 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.
RB28 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 81
RB52 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Overall rank
- 194
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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 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Ray Davis, and the board ranks him 194th 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 Ray Davis is 0.7 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.
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, Ray Davis has been on the field for 11 percent of BUF snaps, taken 3 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAR he carried 2 times for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against LV he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 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 Ray Davis played 17 games and scored 64.1 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB61.
He carried 58 times for 275 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 13 targets for 86 more yards.
That came to 3.4 carries a game at 4.7 yards a carry and 0.6 catches a game.
He was on the field for 11 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Ray Davis was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Chris Rodriguez Jr. scored 7.1 PPR points a game and Ray Davis 3.8, 3.3 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 that year and Ray Davis RB61.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. had 54 more carries than Ray Davis, 112 to 58.
Ray Davis had 7 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 10 to 3.
This season Chris Rodriguez Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 25 percent against 11 percent.
This season Chris Rodriguez Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 24 percent against 3 percent.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
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