Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or TreVeyon Henderson in Week 8?
Updated Oct 28, 3:17 AM 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 TreVeyon Henderson's 21 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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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.
RB14 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 40
RB16 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 2-4
- Overall rank
- 54
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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 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on TreVeyon Henderson, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 8.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 3 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.
The market-based projection for TreVeyon Henderson is 7.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 7 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.
Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
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, TreVeyon Henderson has been on the field for 32 percent of NE snaps, taken 32 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 5 against LV he carried 4 times for 22 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NYJ he carried 7 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against CHI he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 14 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 TreVeyon Henderson played 17 games and scored 206.2 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing RB21.
He carried 180 times for 911 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 35 of 42 targets for 221 more yards.
That came to 10.6 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
TreVeyon Henderson was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 TreVeyon Henderson scored 12.1 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 5.1 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 that year and TreVeyon Henderson RB21.
TreVeyon Henderson had 68 more carries than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 180 to 112.
TreVeyon Henderson had 32 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 35 to 3.
This season TreVeyon Henderson holds the bigger snap share, 32 percent against 25 percent.
This season TreVeyon Henderson holds the bigger share of the carries, 32 percent against 24 percent.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and TreVeyon Henderson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Should I drop TreVeyon Henderson?
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