Commanders RB Jacory Croskey-Merritt didn't help your fantasy team in Week 6 nearly as much as he did the week before. He managed just 61 yards on 17 carries against what's been a weak Bears fun defense. But those 17 carries marked a second straight season high, and the rookie increased his season high for playing time by a significant margin. RB Chris Rodriguez played just a single snap, while RB Jeremy McNichols played less than half as many snaps as JCM and even trailed the starter in pass routes.
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Croskey-Merritt played 43 of Washington's 65 offensive snaps. That marked a 15-snap increase over his previous high total. And his 66.2% share beat his Week 5 high by nearly 18 percentage points.
Croskey-Merritt's 16 routes also marked a second straight season high and edged McNichols for the second time since Austin Ekeler went down.
Washington notably went back to JCM the next play after he lost a first-quarter fumble.
It undoubtedly helped Croskey-Merritt's role that Rodriguez entered the game questionable with a calf injury that kept him out of practice all week. But Washington's show of increasing faith in the seventh-round rookie will make it easier to start him regularly in fantasy lineups.
Week 7 holds a Dallas defense that just got run over by Rico Dowdle. But JCM will find more challenging matchups the following two weeks against the Chiefs and Seahawks.
Don't be surprised if he lands outside our top 24 RBs for those contests.