Rodrigo Santos

In April 2025, Fortaleza paid Maringá FC R$4 million for 60% of his economic rights, the biggest outright sale in Maringá's history.

He started out in Bahia's academy before working his way through regional football — Barcelona de Ilhéus, where he won the Bahia state second division in 2020, then Vitória da Conquista in the top flight of the same state championship the following year. A free transfer to Grêmio Prudente in April 2022 put him in São Paulo's lower divisions, and by 2023 he had become a fixture there, playing 32 matches and scoring five goals across the A3 and Copa Paulista competitions.

That form took him to Maringá FC at the end of 2023, where the club bought half his economic rights. A loan spell at Avaí followed in the second half of 2024, though he did not find the net in his 13 appearances there. Back at Maringá in 2025, he helped the club finish runner-up in the Paraná state championship.

At Fortaleza, he has settled into a regular role, featuring in 38 matches across all competitions in the 2025/2026 season with three goals and three assists. He scored against Floresta and Horizonte in the 2026 Campeonato Cearense and again against Sport Recife in the Brazilian Série B in June 2026. In March 2026 he played in the Cearense final, where Fortaleza beat Ceará on penalties after a 1-1 draw, taking the state title.

He has not been called up to the senior Brazil squad.