Should I start Ollie Gordon II or Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 11:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Ollie Gordon II: 71 percent of the snaps and 53 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jacory Croskey-Merritt's 46 percent of the snaps and 48 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB21 · MIA · bye 6
2026 vs anytime td line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 9.7 pts a game
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
- 266
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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 Ollie Gordon II, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacory Croskey-Merritt, and the board ranks him 266th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Ollie Gordon II's market-based projection is 9.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 86th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Jacory Croskey-Merritt, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Ollie Gordon II has been on the field for 48 percent of MIA snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 5 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have come 3.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against KC he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 14 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against MIN he carried 9 times for 100 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against CIN he carried 18 times for 88 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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 Ollie Gordon II played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.
He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.
That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 22 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.
Head to head
In 2025 Jacory Croskey-Merritt scored 8.3 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon II 3.2, 5.1 a game between them.
Ollie Gordon II finished RB68 that year and Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB33.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 105 more carries than Ollie Gordon II, 175 to 70.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 2 more catches than Ollie Gordon II, 9 to 7.
This season Ollie Gordon II holds the bigger snap share, 48 percent against 45 percent.
This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 46 percent against 36 percent.
Byes and availability
Ollie Gordon II is off in Week 6 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Jacory Croskey-Merritt has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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