The Washington Commanders’ coaching staff sees lead-back potential in Jacory Croskey-Merritt, provided the sophomore can elevate his sparse 3.0-percent Target Share from last season. Running backs coach Anthony Lynn believes the second-year back has high-volume playmaking ability.

Rachaad White, Jeremy McNichols, and Jerome Ford are taking most of Washington’s RB reps while Kaytron Allen gets up to speed. Regardless of whether Croskey-Merritt is called upon in passing situations, as long as he successfully secures the early-down duties over Allen, “Bill” (Croskey-Merritt) will unlock a high TD equity role. Bill will continue to lose sleeper steam in both fantasy football seasonal and dynasty league formats until he returns to practice.