Should I start Courtland Sutton or Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Courtland Sutton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 89th 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 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Courtland Sutton, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt's market-based projection is 8.4 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 96th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Courtland Sutton has been on the field for 78 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 11.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 3 of 7 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 6 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Courtland Sutton played 17 games and scored 219.7 PPR points, 12.9 a game, finishing WR13.

He caught 74 of 124 targets for 1017 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 7.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 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.

Side by side

In 2025 Courtland Sutton scored 12.9 PPR points a game and Jacory Croskey-Merritt 8.3, 4.7 a game between them.

Courtland Sutton finished WR13 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB33, which are two different ladders.

Courtland Sutton is a wide receiver 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

Courtland Sutton is off in Week 10 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

Courtland Sutton has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.