\n 3. He made the most of a tough year at Arizona.<\/p>\n
Things started well enough for Croskey-Merritt at Arizona, as he rushed for 106 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries, but questions about his eligibility forced him to miss the rest of the season. “It was pretty rough,” Croskey-Merritt said, but he made the most of it by staying active in practice to help his team win.<\/p>\n
That effort might not have shown up on the stat sheet, but it stuck out to the Commanders when evaluating him.<\/p>\n
“You talk to the people at Arizona, and you talk to him when he was here [for a 30 visit], and they have so much respect for how he stayed engaged the whole way through the season,” said Commanders assistant general manager Lance Newmark.<\/p>\n
What stood out the most to the Commanders is that his preparation stayed the same, despite not playing a role on Saturdays. That shows a high level of integrity that the front office wanted on their roster.<\/p>\n
“I learned that I’m a strong individual…always loved the game, but it challenged me to a different level, and I was ready to take on that talent,” Croskey-Merritt said. “I think I did a good job at that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3. He made the most of a tough year at Arizona. Things started well enough for Croskey-Merritt at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,1806,6,1805,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-18375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-football-news","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-subsection-news","13":"tag-washington","14":"tag-washington-commanders","15":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114439272791649310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}