Jeremiyah Love or Jacory Croskey-Merritt: who to draft first

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Jeremiyah Love at 10.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 86th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.

The player markets price Jacory Croskey-Merritt at 10.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 87th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jeremiyah Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 10; 2QB: ADP 47.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacory Croskey-Merritt: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 107.

This season through Week 1

Through Week 1, Jeremiyah Love has been on the field for 43 percent of ARI snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 1 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 1 against LAC he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 1, Jacory Croskey-Merritt has been on the field for 49 percent of WAS snaps, taken 50 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets, had 1 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 1 two minute target.

His 1 target have come 7.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against PHI he carried 16 times for 63 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

Jeremiyah Love is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

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.

Head to head

This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger snap share, 49 percent against 43 percent.

This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 50 percent against 35 percent.

Byes and availability

Jeremiyah Love is off in Week 14 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.1 points a game is the entire case. The books restate 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 books when it does.