Fantasy Football 2025: RB Jacory Croskey-Merritt Player Profile

• Shrine Bowl and Combine Success: Jacory Croskey-Merritt showed his potential with an impressive performance of Shrine Bowl and strong combination results.
• Backfield Shakeup from commanders: Croskey-Merritt’s fast climb on the depth card of the Washington Commanders suggests an important role in 2025.
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Last updated: 8:15 pm Sunday, August 17

Player Performance

Jacory Croskey-Merritt has published 2019-2022 as a running back for Alabama StatePlay an important role in 2021 and 2022 with a steady improvement of every season. He went on to New Mexico In 2023 and significantly improved in both the current game and the passing game, on average a first and breaking long runs with a ridiculously high percentage, albeit at a lower level of competition than most running of the 2025 design class. It was mainly used as a runner with New Mexico and was very rarely used as a recipient. When he was, he earned a decent figure.

He went on to Arizona In 2024 and one game played, but a problem issue occurred, so he no longer qualified. He looked great on a relatively small monster, albeit against his former team, New Mexico. He played in the Shrine Bowl and won 97 meters on 11 and two touchdowns.

Croskey-Merritt was impressed by the mowing porter and ended in the 80th percentile or better in the 40-Yard Dash, 10-Yard Split, vertical jump and wide jump. Although his combination results were great, his PFF tracking data suggests an under-average speed compared to other running backs at the top of the concept class. However, he was faster than Cam Skattebo, Jordan James and Tahj Brooks.

Projected role

Croskey-Merritt was selected by the Washington commanders, who had a busy backfield last season with Brian Robinson Jr., Austin Ekeler, Jeremy McNichols and Chris Rodriguez Jr. The commanders have a clear early back and a clear reception of their games. Robinson is the primary early back and Eekeler has been the primary reception. This initially made it seemed as if the path from Croskey-Merritt to the playing time would be very difficult.

However, he already played for both McNichols and Rodriguez in the first season game of the commanders. Robinson and Eekeler had finished the game, but Croskey-Merritt served as the primary early, while McNichols was the reception. Rodriguez only played in the game much later, which suggested that he was a clear fifth on the depth card.

This made it seemed as if Croskey-Merritt would be the clear handcuff if Robinson were injured. Robinson missed every season, so it seemed likely that Croskey-Merritt would be the primary Rusher for Washington this season this season. However, Jordan Schultz from Fox Sports has reported that the commanders have been Shopping Robinson.

This suggests that Washington feels comfortable when Croskey-Merritt drives back their primary early. Even if Robinson is not traded, they want their best runner on the field, and it seems that they believe that this is a croskey-merritt.

Impact of teammates

Croskey-Merritt will play in the attack of Kliff Kingsbury, where his running backs have often been fantasy starters when they are healthy. He sometimes returns once, but also had an early back with a pass-down back. In view of the fact that Croskey-Merritt was not used on the third downs in their first preview game and was not even used often in New Mexico, it seems very likely that his role will only be like an early back. The violations of Kinsbury are balanced and produce a low speed from throwing to running. The presence of Deebo Samuel with a broad recipient is likely to make the target speed suffer from walking back.

Jayden Daniels is a quarterback that can run, which may also limit the running backs. The commanders did not necessarily use him on the line of one meter, such as other running quarterbacks, but that could change with Croskey-Merritt. Brian Robinson was noticeably larger than Daniels, but Croskey-Merritt is slightly smaller.

The commanders made changes to the attacking line in 2024, which did not work as well as expected. The three domestic line men have all ruled worse than on earlier points in their career, even though they are at an age where they should be near their prime. Brandon Coleman played great for a third round tackle for a Rookie. The commanders replaced their weakest link on the line with Laremy Tunsil, known as an excellent pass protector, but he has also been an adequate Runblocker. The line must be improved compared to what it was last season, but the question is by how much.

Bottom Line

Croskey-Merritt is about to fly faster design signs than most sites have updated their ADPs. This will mainly be true if the commanders find a trading partner for Robinson. It is worth it to be set up one of the top 32, but you don’t have to set it up that high.

Footnotes

• Statistics in tables and graphs were chosen on the basis of their ability to predict future fantasy performance based on a per game or per-optiminity or to describe the player in the same position compared to others.
• “Opportunities” are defined as passing dropbacks, hasty attempts and routes run as a recipient.
• Songs are based per season or based on the past three years. Only university statistics are included for Rookies. For non-smokies, only NFL statistics are considered, regardless of whether they played at the university within the past three years.
• Because the university match is easier than the NFL competition, most Rookies will probably see a decrease in their historical figures.
• Only FBS data is considered for university players and comparisons.
• Kneeling is removed from almost data to offer cleaner Quarterback Rushing Rate statistics.
• The table colors in this article vary from blue (indicates good/high) to red (indicated poor/low).
• All percentiles and color coding compare the given player with others with a high example of opportunities. In general, the Cutoff is a third of the possible opportunities in the sample. If a player does not meet the threshold, they are still included in the comparison, although their results may seem better or worse than expected because of the smaller, less predictive sample size.
• Information about usage classifications and their importance can be found here for running backs, broad recipients and tight ends.