Should I start Brian Robinson or Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brian Robinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacory Croskey-Merritt: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Brian Robinson is 8.7 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.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt's market-based projection is 8.6 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 96th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Brian Robinson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Brian Robinson has been on the field for 33 percent of ATL snaps, taken 32 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against GB he carried 10 times for 50 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

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 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 3.7, 4.6 a game between them.

Brian Robinson finished RB63 that year and Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB33.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 83 more carries than Brian Robinson, 175 to 92.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 1 more catches than Brian Robinson, 9 to 8.

This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger snap share, 45 percent against 33 percent.

This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 46 percent against 32 percent.

Byes and availability

Brian Robinson is off in Week 11 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Brian Robinson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.