Should I start Jacory Croskey-Merritt or Keaton Mitchell in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Jacory Croskey-Merritt over Keaton Mitchell
- Market projects
- 8.5
- fantasy pts
- SF D vs RB
- 23.6
- 10th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 45%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 7.1
- fantasy pts
- KC D vs RB
- 20.0
- 14th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 33%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 10%
- Through Week 5
Jacory Croskey-Merritt's market-based projection is 1.4 points a game ahead of Keaton Mitchell's this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the market-based projection is the live read on these two.
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RB32 · WAS · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 8.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB36 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 7.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference1.4 points a game
- Board size317 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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The market-based projections
Jacory Croskey-Merritt's market-based projection is 8.5 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 98th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.
Keaton Mitchell's market-based projection is 7.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacory Croskey-Merritt: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Keaton Mitchell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.
This season through Week 5
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.
Through Week 5, Keaton Mitchell has been on the field for 33 percent of LAC snaps, taken 22 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 44 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 19 two minute targets.
His 14 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against BUF he carried 8 times for 52 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for -5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against SEA he carried 10 times for 39 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 24 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against DEN he carried 6 times for 11 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 18 yards and did not score.
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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 0-1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Keaton Mitchell played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB67.
He carried 59 times for 341 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 9 of 12 targets for 63 more yards.
That came to 4-5 carries a game at 5.8 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.
He was on the field for 17 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jacory Croskey-Merritt scored 8.3 PPR points a game and Keaton Mitchell 4.3, 4.0 a game between them.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt finished RB33 that year and Keaton Mitchell RB67.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 116 more carries than Keaton Mitchell, 175 to 59.
Both had 9 catches.
This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger snap share, 45 percent against 33 percent.
This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 46 percent against 22 percent.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
1.4 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.
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