DJ Moore or Jacory Croskey-Merritt: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

DJ Moore's market-based projection is 11.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 72nd highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt's market-based projection is 7.4 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 99th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on DJ Moore: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 56th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 16; 2QB: ADP 37.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacory Croskey-Merritt: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 57th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 4, DJ Moore has been on the field for 51 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 15.2 air yards.

In Week 2 against DET he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAC he caught 6 of 10 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 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 DJ Moore played 17 games and scored 170.2 PPR points, 10.0 a game, finishing WR35.

He caught 50 of 85 targets for 682 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 5.0 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 13.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 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 DJ Moore scored 10.0 PPR points a game and Jacory Croskey-Merritt 8.3, 1.8 a game between them.

DJ Moore finished WR35 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB33, which are two different ladders.

DJ Moore 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

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

DJ Moore is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

3.7 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 projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.