Should I start Jordan James or Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 10:11 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jacory Croskey-Merritt: 46 percent of the snaps and 48 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jordan James's 10 percent of the snaps and 10 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB · SF · on bye this week
- Overall rank
- 238
RB · WAS · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 244
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan James, and the board ranks him 238th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacory Croskey-Merritt, and the board ranks him 244th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jordan James, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Jacory Croskey-Merritt, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Jordan James has been on the field for 10 percent of SF snaps, taken 10 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 12 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.
His 1 target have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against MIA he carried 4 times for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against ATL he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target 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 Jordan James played 3 games.
He carried 0 times for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.
He was on the field for 1 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.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt was available for 14 games more.
Head to head
Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 175 more carries than Jordan James, 175 to 0.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 9 more catches than Jordan James, 9 to 0.
This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger snap share, 45 percent against 10 percent.
This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 46 percent against 10 percent.
Byes and availability
Jordan James is off in Week 8 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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