Jacory Croskey-Merritt or Travis Etienne Jr.: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 11:41 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Travis Etienne Jr., so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB23 · WAS · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-2
- Market price
- 11.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB55 · NO · bye 8
2025 vs rush yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 200
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacory Croskey-Merritt: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Etienne Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 200th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Jacory Croskey-Merritt at 11.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 80th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Travis Etienne Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Jacory Croskey-Merritt has been on the field for 47 percent of WAS snaps, taken 48 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 14 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.
In Week 2 against DAL he carried 12 times for 43 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
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.
Through Week 3, Travis Etienne Jr. has been on the field for 51 percent of NO snaps, taken 38 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 1 against DET he carried 9 times for 46 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against BAL he carried 8 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against LV he carried 13 times for 57 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 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 0.5 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 Travis Etienne Jr. in the last completed season.
Head to head
This season Travis Etienne Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 51 percent against 47 percent.
This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 48 percent against 38 percent.
Byes and availability
Jacory Croskey-Merritt is off in Week 7 and Travis Etienne Jr. in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Travis Etienne Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Travis Etienne Jr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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