Should I start Tony Pollard or Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 12:51 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Tony Pollard: 65 percent of the snaps and 83 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s 22 percent of the snaps and 24 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 · TEN · bye 9
2026 vs carries line 5-2
- Market-based projection
- 12.2 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 79
RB30 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 84
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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 Tony Pollard, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Tony Pollard is 3.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.
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.
Tony Pollard's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 58 percent of TEN snaps, taken 70 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 41 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 9 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.
His 16 targets have averaged 1.4 air yards.
In Week 5 against HOU he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against IND he carried 19 times for 76 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against CLE he carried 25 times for 129 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 26 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tony Pollard played 17 games and scored 185.8 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing RB23.
He carried 242 times for 1082 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 41 targets for 206 more yards.
That came to 14.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.
He was on the field for 62 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.
Tony Pollard was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Tony Pollard scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 3.9 a game between them.
Tony Pollard finished RB23 that year and Chris Rodriguez Jr. RB51.
Tony Pollard had 130 more carries than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 242 to 112.
Tony Pollard had 30 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 33 to 3.
This season Tony Pollard holds the bigger snap share, 58 percent against 25 percent.
This season Tony Pollard holds the bigger share of the carries, 70 percent against 24 percent.
Byes and availability
Tony Pollard is off in Week 9 and Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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