Jacory Croskey-Merritt
Washington Commanders·#22·5'11"·208 lb·Rookie·ArizonaRecruited
Class of 2019 · Running back · High school: Lanier, Montgomery, AL
Partial offer list. Offer lists for the 2019 class are partial everywhere we can read them: we hold 3 or more offers for 67 of 4,453 recruits, and we grade only those boards.
College: Alabama State 2019-22, New Mexico 2023, Arizona 2024
Our College Grade
How good he was in college at what his position is supposed to do, out of 100. Scored against everyone else at his position, adjusted for the level he played at. This is not his NFL grade.
College Production
New Mexico · Mountain West
| Season | G | Car | Yds | TD | Rec | RecYds | Pos Rk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 11 | 151 | 937 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 49 |
The seasons in our college data. It does not always reach back to a player's first year.
Scouting Report
New Mexico · 2025 draft class
Croskey-Merritt is a compact, powerful running back with excellent balance and competitive toughness. He displays impressive lower body strength, consistently breaking tackles and falling forward for extra yardage. As a runner, Croskey-Merritt shows good vision, finding cutback lanes and setting up blocks effectively. He accelerates quickly through holes and has enough speed to break chunk gains when he finds daylight. Croskey-Merritt demonstrates reliable hands as a receiver out of the backfield and has shown improving pass protection skills. He runs with good pad level, making himself difficult to tackle.
Strengths
- Lower body strength
- balance
- competitive toughness
- tackle-breaking ability
- vision
- quick acceleration
- yards after contact
- pad level
- reliable hands
- falling forward
Concerns
- Top-end speed is merely adequate
- lateral agility in space is good but not elite
- route-running needs refinement
- pass protection technique can improve
- sometimes lacks ideal size for consistent between-the-tackles running