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Should I start Nicholas Singleton or Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7?

Updated Oct 19, 11:11 PM ET.

Start Jacory Croskey-Merritt: 46 percent of the snaps and 48 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Nicholas Singleton's 12 percent of the snaps and 13 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.

RB60 · TEN · bye 9

Market-based projection
0.7 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank
233

RB61 · WAS · bye 7

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Market-based projection
10.9 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
234

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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 Nicholas Singleton, and the board ranks him 233rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacory Croskey-Merritt, and the board ranks him 234th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Nicholas Singleton, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

The market-based projection for Jacory Croskey-Merritt is 0.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Nicholas Singleton has been on the field for 12 percent of TEN snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 11 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

In Week 2 against PHI he carried 4 times for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 3 times for 2 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

Nicholas Singleton is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

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.

Head to head

This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger snap share, 45 percent against 12 percent.

This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 46 percent against 13 percent.

Byes and availability

Nicholas Singleton is off in Week 9 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Nicholas Singleton is listed as out on the injury report.

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

Both players in full

Week 7 on the board

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