A largely underappreciated part of Rodri's(and Dinhos) role in our team is to aerially compete for and win the oppositions lumps out of defence to keep them pinned in.
Whilst Bruno G would be my favoured pick he does fall well short in this part of his game(38% win rate) compared to Rodri(70%).
Couple players that have that in the locker -
Amadou Onana(Everton)
Ederson(Atalanta)
Yangel Herrera(Girona, though probably would have been given chance when he was ours?)
Mikel Merino(R.Sociedad and his Spain understudy)