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Should I start Jacory Croskey-Merritt or Kyle Monangai in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 2:46 PM ET.

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  • : Kyle Monangai: Questionable to Out (Toe, Sprain) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Jacory Croskey-Merritt: 46 percent of the snaps and 48 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Kyle Monangai's 41 percent of the snaps and 43 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 · WAS · bye 7

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Overall rank
258

RB · CHI · on bye this week

2026 vs carries line 4-0

Overall rank
262

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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 Jacory Croskey-Merritt, and the board ranks him 258th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Monangai, and the board ranks him 262nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Jacory Croskey-Merritt, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Kyle Monangai, 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 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 4, Kyle Monangai has been on the field for 41 percent of CHI snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 6 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 10 times for 47 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 30 times for 146 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Kyle Monangai played 17 games and scored 146.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB30.

He carried 169 times for 783 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 18 of 30 targets for 164 more yards.

That came to 9.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Kyle Monangai scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Jacory Croskey-Merritt 8.3, 0.4 a game between them.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt finished RB33 that year and Kyle Monangai RB30.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 6 more carries than Kyle Monangai, 175 to 169.

Kyle Monangai had 9 more catches than Jacory Croskey-Merritt, 18 to 9.

This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger snap share, 45 percent against 41 percent.

This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 46 percent against 39 percent.

Byes and availability

Jacory Croskey-Merritt is off in Week 7 and Kyle Monangai in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

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

Kyle Monangai is listed as out on the injury report.

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