Brock Purdy or Jacory Croskey-Merritt: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Brock Purdy at 17.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 221 players the market prices.

The player markets price Jacory Croskey-Merritt at 10.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 90th highest figure of the 221 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Purdy: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 80th 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 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 97 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 122 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 122 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.

In Week 2 against MIA he completed 20 of 22 passes for 287 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 30 yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he completed 15 of 27 passes for 297 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 35 yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he completed 19 of 29 passes for 218 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 31 yards.

Through Week 4, Jacory Croskey-Merritt has been on the field for 47 percent of WAS snaps, taken 48 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.

In Week 2 against DAL he carried 12 times for 43 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Purdy played 9 games and scored 187.4 PPR points, 20.8 a game, finishing QB24.

He threw for 2167 yards on 284 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 31.6 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 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 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Jacory Croskey-Merritt 8.3, 12.6 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB33, which are two different ladders.

Brock Purdy is a quarterback and Jacory Croskey-Merritt a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jacory Croskey-Merritt is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Brock Purdy.

What would change the answer

7.0 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.