Jacory Croskey-Merritt's NFL debut lived up to the hype for the Washington Commanders' seventh-round rookie RB.
Game two? Not so much.
JCM, known as Bill, was a total disappointment on Thursday Night Football against the Green Bay Packers.
He ran four times for 17 yards, and he didn't catch his lone target.
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What happened to Jacory Croskey-Merritt?
A couple things worked against JCM on Thursday Night Football.
The first: a couple bad opening drives.
The Commanders were hardly on the field in the early going, with a couple quick drives and punts.
Austin Ekeler was in for those sequences, and JCM never even had a chance to get in before Washington was punting again.
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The second issue was game flow.
The Packers took a lead and never looked back, and the Commanders were mostly in pass mode. Bill isn't their passing-down back.
Even once Austin Ekeler left injured, it was Jeremy McNichols who played on passing downs.
Croskey-Merritt should see more carries in Week 3 with no Ekeler, but this just proved that he isn't yet a sure thing.
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