Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Tee Higgins in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 7:16 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Tee Higgins: 81 percent of the snaps and 21 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s 22 percent of the snaps and 18 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.
RB10 · JAX · bye 7
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- Overall rank
- 16
WR7 · CIN · bye 6
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- Market-based projection
- 16.4 pts a game
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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 16th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Tee Higgins, and the board ranks him 18th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 15.2 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.
Tee Higgins's market-based projection is 16.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 23rd 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, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 80 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 15 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 43 two minute targets.
His 61 targets have averaged 13.6 air yards.
In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against BAL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 148 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against TEN he caught 10 of 11 targets for 155 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
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 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.
He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.
That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 80 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Tee Higgins was available for 2 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Tee Higgins scored 14.1 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 7.0 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 and Tee Higgins WR15, which are two different ladders.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Tee Higgins a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and Tee Higgins in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
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.
Both players in full
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