Jacory Croskey-Merritt or Pierre Strong: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Jacory Croskey-Merritt's market-based projection is 7.9 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 105th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

Pierre Strong's market-based projection is 7.8 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacory Croskey-Merritt: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Pierre Strong: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

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 5, Pierre Strong has been on the field for 41 percent of GB snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 9 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have come 4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 5 times for 7 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

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.

The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong in the last completed season.

Head to head

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 21 percent.

Byes and availability

Jacory Croskey-Merritt is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Pierre Strong.

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

What would change the answer

0.2 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.