Croskey-Merritt quietly put together a nice first year as a featured back, with his run grade (57th percentile), elusive rating (68th percentile), success rate (66th percentile), and broken-tackle rate (68th percentile) all clustering in the same above-average range without a standout in any direction. So he's a consistent but unspectacular runner. The receiving game is essentially nonexistent–11 targets all season, 1st-percentile volume, 8th-percentile route grade–so his value is entirely rush-dependent. Washington enters 2026 with 126 vacated carries (37.6% of team carries), the bulk of which belonged to Chris Rodriguez, giving JCM a real opportunity to take on a bigger workload. The concern is the offensive line: Washington ranked 27th in net OL spending this offseason and made no early draft investments at the position. The Commanders signed Rachaad White and Jerome Ford, Jeremy McNichols is still around, and they added Kaytron Allen in the draft. This could turn ugly quickly if JCM doesn’t have a good summer.