Should I start Mark Andrews or Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Mark Andrews's market-based projection is 8.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 100th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt's market-based projection is 8.1 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 102nd highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Mark Andrews: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacory Croskey-Merritt: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 65 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 6.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against DAL he caught 3 of 5 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TEN he caught 5 of 6 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against ATL he caught 4 of 6 targets for 28 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 Mark Andrews played 17 games and scored 131.0 PPR points, 7.7 a game, finishing TE16.

He caught 48 of 70 targets for 422 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 4.1 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 8.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 62 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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Jacory Croskey-Merritt scored 8.3 PPR points a game and Mark Andrews 7.7, 0.5 a game between them.

Mark Andrews finished TE16 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB33, which are two different ladders.

Mark Andrews is a tight end and Jacory Croskey-Merritt a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Mark Andrews is off in Week 13 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

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

What would change the answer

0.1 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.