Should I start Malik Davis or Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7?
Updated Oct 22, 1:46 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jacory Croskey-Merritt: he has been on the field this season, 46 percent of the snaps, and Malik Davis has no snap on record yet. 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 · DAL · bye 14
2025 vs anytime td line 2-8
- Overall rank
- 263
RB · WAS · on bye this week
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 10.9 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 267
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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 Malik Davis, and the board ranks him 263rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacory Croskey-Merritt, and the board ranks him 267th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Malik Davis, 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 through Week 5
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Malik Davis this season.
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 Malik Davis played 10 games and scored 40.6 PPR points, 4.1 a game, finishing RB73.
He carried 52 times for 250 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 5 targets for 16 more yards.
That came to 5.2 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 23 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 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jacory Croskey-Merritt scored 8.3 PPR points a game and Malik Davis 4.1, 4.2 a game between them.
Malik Davis finished RB73 that year and Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB33.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 123 more carries than Malik Davis, 175 to 52.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 7 more catches than Malik Davis, 9 to 2.
Byes and availability
Malik Davis is off in Week 14 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Malik Davis is listed as ir on the injury report.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt is listed as ir on the injury report.
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