Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Sione Vaki in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 2:21 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 Sione Vaki's 21 percent of the snaps and 9 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.
RB29 · JAX · bye 7
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- Overall rank
- 85
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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 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Sione Vaki at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 3.2 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.
No season market is posted for Sione Vaki, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
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, Sione Vaki has been on the field for 24 percent of DET snaps, taken 10 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.6 air yards.
In Week 4 against CAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against ARI he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against GB he carried 1 time 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 Sione Vaki played 11 games and scored 0.4 PPR points, 0.0 a game, finishing RB143.
He carried 1 time for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.
That came to 0.1 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry.
He was on the field for 0 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Chris Rodriguez Jr. scored 7.1 PPR points a game and Sione Vaki 0.0, 7.0 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 that year and Sione Vaki RB143.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. had 111 more carries than Sione Vaki, 112 to 1.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. had 3 more catches than Sione Vaki, 3 to 0.
This season Chris Rodriguez Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 25 percent against 24 percent.
This season Chris Rodriguez Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 24 percent against 10 percent.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Sione Vaki.
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