{"id":353145,"date":"2025-12-17T04:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/353145\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T04:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:22:06","slug":"vote-for-rb-bill-croskey-merritt-as-the-pepsi-zero-nfl-rookie-of-week-15-for-his-performance-in-the-win-over-the-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/353145\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for RB Bill Croskey-Merritt as the Pepsi Zero NFL Rookie of Week 15 for his performance in the win over the Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Commanders running back Bill Croskey-Merritt has been nominated for the Pepsi Zero NFL Rookie of the Week award for his outstanding play in the team\u2019s Week 15 victory over the New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Many fans have been clamoring for the coaching staff to \u2018play the youngsters\u2019, and Bill came through with a big game for the second time this season against the NY Giants. This is a great chance for Commanders fans to spread the love and show appreciation for the rookie 7th round draft pick who has been a sensation and fan favorite since his arrival in Washington<\/p>\n<p>To cast your vote for Bill this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/voting\/rookies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CLICK HERE;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>By the way, unlike political elections, you are not limited in the number of times you can vote, so feel free to press that \u201cVote Again\u201d button repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"942\" height=\"649\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a53c0d8f6d7fa6f5eba9a8908b32fdc9.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bill began his NFL career with an impressive Week 1 performance against the Giants was historic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In that first game against the Giants, Bill ran for 82 yards and a touchdown, and won the Rookie of the Week voting. This time, with Chris Rodriguez injured and unavailable to help, Bill ran for 96 yards and a touchdown with no turnovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His 2-game production against the Giants is 178 yards &amp; 2 touchdowns on 28 carries (6.4 yards per carrry). Impressive!<\/p>\n<p>To cast your vote for Bill Merritt this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/voting\/rookies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CLICK HERE;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>By the way, unlike political elections, you are not limited in the number of times you can vote, so feel free to press that \u201cVote Again\u201d button repeatedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, Commanders running back Bill Croskey-Merritt has been nominated for the Pepsi Zero NFL Rookie of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[45136,64,63,193863,193864,60182,5126,60185,1242,593,85,3601],"class_list":["post-353145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-antonio-gibson","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bill-croskey-merritt","tag-bill-merritt","tag-chris-rodriguez","tag-giants","tag-jacory-croskey-merritt","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}