Ty Johnson or Jacory Croskey-Merritt: who should I start in Week 6?
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 14, 2026 at 7:41 AM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Ty Johnson over Jacory Croskey-Merritt
- Market projects
- 8.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 25%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 14%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 7.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 45%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Ty Johnson, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
More fantasy football tools and rankings, all priced from the same board.
RB20 · BUF · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 4-13
- Market price
- 4.2 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 49
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
RB21 · WAS · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Market price
- 7.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size188 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.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Ty Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 49th 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 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The market has Ty Johnson at 8.6 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The player markets price Jacory Croskey-Merritt at 7.5 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 83rd highest figure of the 145 players the market prices.
Ty Johnson's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Ty Johnson has been on the field for 27 percent of BUF snaps, taken 1 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 21 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 13 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against LAC he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 50 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 72 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.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Ty Johnson played 17 games and scored 100.3 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing RB47.
He carried 50 times for 200 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 33 targets for 263 more yards.
That came to 2.9 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 29 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 0.5 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 Ty Johnson 5.9, 2.4 a game between them.
Ty Johnson finished RB47 that year and Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB33.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt had 125 more carries than Ty Johnson, 175 to 50.
Ty Johnson had 15 more catches than Jacory Croskey-Merritt, 24 to 9.
This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger snap share, 45 percent against 27 percent.
This season Jacory Croskey-Merritt holds the bigger share of the carries, 46 percent against 1 percent.
Byes and availability
Jacory Croskey-Merritt is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Ty Johnson.
What would change the answer
Ty Johnson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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