Should I start Tyler Shough or Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Tyler Shough's market-based projection is 16.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 27th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

Jacory Croskey-Merritt's market-based projection is 7.9 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 103rd highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Shough: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacory Croskey-Merritt: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 223 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 223 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 3 against LV he completed 29 of 42 passes for 255 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 36 yards.

In Week 4 against ATL he completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

In Week 5 against MIN he completed 16 of 25 passes for 96 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

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 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.

He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 51 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 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyler Shough scored 14.9 PPR points a game and Jacory Croskey-Merritt 8.3, 6.7 a game between them.

Tyler Shough finished QB26 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB33, which are two different ladders.

Tyler Shough is a quarterback 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

Tyler Shough is off in Week 8 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.8 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.