Welcome to the Commanders Jacory Croskey-Merritt, RB Arizona

[skinsinparadise]

[The Consiglieri81]

You can pile me into the Croskey-Merritt car. I had never heard of him until this past weekend, but I really like him as a value on late day 3. No idea if he hits, as I mentioned before, I was deeply excited for Bryce Love and Keith Marshall and neither did anything last decade, but in terms of dart throw value, he strikes me as well worth the toss. Could be a legit answer. We'll see. His season in '23 looked quite interesting.

[SkinsGuy]

You can coach up pass protection/blitz pick ups so I wouldn't worry too much about that.

But right now there are 5 RBs on our roster. Someone half decent is gonna be cut. Maybe we shop B Rob around to some team that has RB injuries in camp.

Nah.

They won't trade Robinson or even release him in favor of a late 7th round pick that may or may not work out.

Robinson and Eckler will be Washington's primary backs when the season starts.

Whether any of the other RBs step forward in that time, we will have to wait and see.

[The Consiglieri81]

Kinda with you, kinda not. I think Brian stays in house, I can't remember Ekeler's contract status, that will determine where he ends up, k, checked, his dead cap hit is virtually zero, so Ekeler could stick or be an easy cut. I don't think they're turning over the backfield to Jacory, but I've also watched the Niners plenty, being from the bay, and 3+ hours away at the furthest during my life, so, to me, knowing Peters comes from there, knowing that draft capital dictated nothing ever w/their RB's, and he saw how it just fine that was for Shanny Jr (not to mention his dad), if Jacory kills it in camp, it wouldn't shock me at all if he walked into the starting lineup. That being said, Robinson isn't trash, he's just limited. He had an outlier season that was largely unrepeatable in terms of efficiency, and he fell back to earth, no longer top 10-20 in a bunch of metrics, he was mostly 25th-50th, which is what he is, a guy who sits somewhere between about 20th-40th of all the backs getting starts or spot starts, which is why he needs to be replaced, but he's not horrible, he's just adequate until you find something legit good. The '26 draft is not good, supposedly '27 isn't supposed to be that great either, but it being two years away, hopefully that's wrong, hopefully Jacory is legit, but history says he's got a 8.5-9.5 out of 10 chance of being totally irrelevant. Otoh, he will get opportunity here that he wouldn't get in most backfields he might have been drafted into, so if he is any good, we'll know in '25 barring injury.