Jacory Croskey-Merritt or Chris Rodriguez Jr.: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacory Croskey-Merritt: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Chris Rodriguez Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Jacory Croskey-Merritt at 11.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 79th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 6.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 14 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

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.

Through Week 4, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 27 percent of JAX snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 11 two minute targets.

In Week 2 against DEN he carried 6 times for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NE he carried 8 times for 37 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CIN he carried 6 times for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

The season feed carries no line for Chris Rodriguez Jr. in the last completed season.

Head to head

This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger snap share, 47 percent against 27 percent.

This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 48 percent against 24 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

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

What would change the answer

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.