Rome Odunze or Jacory Croskey-Merritt: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Rome Odunze's market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 70th highest figure of the 146 players with a market-based projection.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt's market-based projection is 7.4 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 146 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rome Odunze: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 52nd 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 53rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Rome Odunze has been on the field for 81 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against PHI he caught 3 of 6 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 6 of 7 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 3 of 9 targets for 40 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 Rome Odunze played 12 games and scored 146.1 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR41.

He caught 44 of 90 targets for 661 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 7-8 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 15.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 82 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.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Rome Odunze scored 12.2 PPR points a game and Jacory Croskey-Merritt 8.3, 3.9 a game between them.

Rome Odunze finished WR41 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB33, which are two different ladders.

Rome Odunze is a wide receiver 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

Rome Odunze is off in Week 10 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

1.9 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.