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Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Woody Marks in Week 9?

Updated Nov 4, 8:41 AM ET.

Start Woody Marks: 84 percent of the snaps and 65 percent of the carries 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.

RB11 · JAX · bye 7

2026 vs carries line 3-4

Overall rank
17

RB14 · HOU · bye 8

2026 vs carries line 5-2

Market-based projection
13.9 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 17th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Woody Marks, and the board ranks him 22nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 15.3 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.

Woody Marks's market-based projection is 13.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 48th highest figure of the 220 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 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 7, Woody Marks has been on the field for 61 percent of HOU snaps, taken 47 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 3 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 5 against TEN he carried 15 times for 62 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against JAX he carried 15 times for 56 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYG he carried 19 times for 66 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 15 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 Woody Marks played 16 games and scored 151.1 PPR points, 9.4 a game, finishing RB29.

He carried 196 times for 703 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 36 targets for 208 more yards.

That came to 12.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Woody Marks was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Woody Marks scored 9.4 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 2.4 a game between them.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 that year and Woody Marks RB29.

Woody Marks had 84 more carries than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 196 to 112.

Woody Marks had 21 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 24 to 3.

This season Woody Marks holds the bigger snap share, 61 percent against 22 percent.

This season Woody Marks holds the bigger share of the carries, 47 percent against 18 percent.

Byes and availability

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and Woody Marks in Week 8, 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.

Should I drop Woody Marks?

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