Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Samaje Perine: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Chris Rodriguez Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 176th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Samaje Perine: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 186th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 4.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 159th highest figure of the 221 players the market prices.

The market has Samaje Perine at 4.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Samaje Perine's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 27 percent of JAX snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 11 two minute targets.

In Week 2 against DEN he carried 6 times for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NE he carried 8 times for 37 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CIN he carried 6 times for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 4, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 34 percent of CIN snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against HOU he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Chris Rodriguez Jr. in the last completed season.

In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 4.5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger snap share, 34 percent against 27 percent.

This season Chris Rodriguez Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 24 percent against 16 percent.

Byes and availability

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Samaje Perine.

What would change the answer

Samaje Perine is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.