Jacory Croskey-Merritt or Kaleb Johnson: 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 Kaleb Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Jacory Croskey-Merritt at 10.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 80th highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.

The market has Kaleb Johnson at 9.7 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.

Kaleb Johnson'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, Kaleb Johnson has been on the field for 31 percent of GB snaps, taken 41 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against NYJ he carried 8 times for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against ATL he carried 4 times for 6 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 8 times for 42 yards and did not score.

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.

In 2025 Kaleb Johnson played 10 games and scored 8.8 PPR points, 0.9 a game, finishing RB115.

He carried 28 times for 69 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 more yards.

That came to 2.8 carries a game at 2.5 yards a carry and 0.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 6 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jacory Croskey-Merritt scored 8.3 PPR points a game and Kaleb Johnson 0.9, 7.4 a game between them.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt finished RB33 that year and Kaleb Johnson RB115.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 147 more carries than Kaleb Johnson, 175 to 28.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 8 more catches than Kaleb Johnson, 9 to 1.

This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger snap share, 47 percent against 31 percent.

This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 48 percent against 41 percent.

Byes and availability

Jacory Croskey-Merritt is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Kaleb Johnson.

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

What would change the answer

Kaleb Johnson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.