Should I start Pierre Strong Jr. or Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 11:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jacory Croskey-Merritt: 46 percent of the snaps and 48 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Pierre Strong Jr.'s 49 percent of the snaps and 33 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.
RB40 · GB · bye 11
- Overall rank
- 122
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 Pierre Strong Jr., and the board ranks him 122nd 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
The market has Pierre Strong Jr. at 4.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a 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 so far
Through Week 6, Pierre Strong Jr. has been on the field for 49 percent of GB snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 30 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 0.7 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.
In Week 6 against DAL he carried 11 times for 28 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 39 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
The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong Jr. in the last completed season.
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 Pierre Strong Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 49 percent against 45 percent.
This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 46 percent against 33 percent.
Byes and availability
Pierre Strong Jr. is off in Week 11 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.
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