Should I start Brian Robinson Jr. or Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 11:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Brian Robinson Jr.: Listed Questionable (Hamstring) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Jacory Croskey-Merritt: 46 percent of the snaps and 48 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Brian Robinson Jr.'s 27 percent of the snaps and 32 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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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.
RB28 · ATL · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 4-2
- Overall rank
- 81
RB · WAS · on bye this week
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 10.9 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 266
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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 Brian Robinson Jr., and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacory Croskey-Merritt, and the board ranks him 266th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Brian Robinson Jr. at 6.7 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.
No season market is posted for Jacory Croskey-Merritt, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 6, Brian Robinson Jr. has been on the field for 31 percent of ATL snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.
In Week 4 against NO he carried 14 times for 62 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.
In Week 5 against BAL he carried 7 times for 16 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against CHI he carried 2 times for 1 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Jacory Croskey-Merritt has been on the field for 45 percent of WAS snaps, taken 46 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against SEA he carried 19 times for 36 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against IND he carried 9 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 35 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against NYG he carried 11 times for 82 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Brian Robinson Jr. played 17 games and scored 62.5 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing RB63.
He carried 92 times for 400 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 12 targets for 25 more yards.
That came to 5.4 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 17 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jacory Croskey-Merritt played 17 games and scored 140.3 PPR points, 8.3 a game, finishing RB33.
He carried 175 times for 805 yards and 8 touchdowns, and caught 9 of 13 targets for 68 more yards.
That came to 10.3 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Jacory Croskey-Merritt scored 8.3 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson Jr. 3.7, 4.6 a game between them.
Brian Robinson Jr. finished RB63 that year and Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB33.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 83 more carries than Brian Robinson Jr., 175 to 92.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 1 more catches than Brian Robinson Jr., 9 to 8.
This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger snap share, 45 percent against 31 percent.
This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 46 percent against 31 percent.
Byes and availability
Brian Robinson Jr. is off in Week 11 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Brian Robinson Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt is listed as ir on the injury report.
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