Should I start Tyson Bagent or Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Tyson Bagent, 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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QB17 · CHI · bye 10
- Market-based projection
- 15.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 102
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
RB32 · WAS · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 7.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size316 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 Tyson Bagent: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 102nd 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 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Tyson Bagent, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt's market-based projection is 7.8 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 101st highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Tyson Bagent has been on the field for 63 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 70 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 70 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 2 against MIN he completed 5 of 8 passes for 54 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 4 against NYJ he completed 25 of 34 passes for 268 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.
In Week 5 against GB he completed 12 of 21 passes for 87 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 17 yards.
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 Tyson Bagent played 3 games and scored 2.6 PPR points, 0.9 a game, finishing QB67.
He threw for 47 yards on 4 attempts with 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 1.3 attempts a game at 11.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 1 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 14 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jacory Croskey-Merritt scored 8.3 PPR points a game and Tyson Bagent 0.9, 7.4 a game between them.
Tyson Bagent finished QB67 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt RB33, which are two different ladders.
Tyson Bagent 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
Tyson Bagent is off in Week 10 and Jacory Croskey-Merritt in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Tyson Bagent has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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