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Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Zach Charbonnet in Week 9?

Updated Nov 3, 3:36 AM ET.

Start Zach Charbonnet on last season's numbers, 11.3 points a game to Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s 7.1. Neither has a market projection this week or a snap on record this season, so this is the lowest confidence call this page can make. 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.

RB10 · JAX · bye 7

2026 vs carries line 3-4

Overall rank
41

RB13 · SEA · bye 11

2025 vs carries line 10-6

Market-based projection
8.3 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
46

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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 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 9.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 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.

No season market is posted for Zach Charbonnet, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has 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.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

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 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Zach Charbonnet was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 4.3 a game between them.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 that year and Zach Charbonnet RB24.

Zach Charbonnet had 72 more carries than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 184 to 112.

Zach Charbonnet had 17 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 20 to 3.

Byes and availability

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and Zach Charbonnet in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Both players in full

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