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Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Wan'Dale Robinson in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 3:32 AM ET.

Start Wan'Dale Robinson: 65 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the targets 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB14 · JAX · bye 7

2026 vs carries line 3-3

Overall rank
40

WR23 · TEN · bye 9

2026 vs anytime td line 2-5

Market-based projection
8.6 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 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Wan'Dale Robinson, and the board ranks him 41st 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.

Wan'Dale Robinson's market-based projection is 8.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 65th highest figure of the 200 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 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, Wan'Dale Robinson has been on the field for 66 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 14 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 43 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 6 of 7 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he caught 3 of 7 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CLE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 7 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 Wan'Dale Robinson played 16 games and scored 217.9 PPR points, 13.6 a game, finishing WR14.

He caught 92 of 140 targets for 1014 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 8.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Wan'Dale Robinson was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Wan'Dale Robinson scored 13.6 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 6.5 a game between them.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 and Wan'Dale Robinson WR14, which are two different ladders.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Wan'Dale Robinson 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 Wan'Dale Robinson in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

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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