Emari Demercado

RB · ARI/HOU · 2023–2026

Born January 20, 1999 · College TCU · Undrafted · 5-9, 215 lb

EPA per carry by season

Filled dot: stabilised, with its 90% interval. Ring: the raw season rate.

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Stabilised EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2023	ARI	11	58	284	2	4.90	−0.091	−0.113−0.175 to −0.052	39.7	−5.3	−0.10
2024	ARI	13	24	223	1	9.29	+0.515	−0.071−0.134 to −0.007	50.0	+12.4	+0.11
2025	ARI	12	44	312	0	7.09	−0.157	−0.088−0.150 to −0.026	31.8	−6.9	−0.07
2026	HOU	3	11	31	0	2.82	−0.338	−0.116−0.179 to −0.052	18.2	−3.7	−0.03
Career	HOU	39	137	850	3	6.20	−0.026		37.2	−3.5	−0.09

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2023	ARI	11	30	21	119	0	70.0	−0.498	7.9	0.9	−14.9	−0.23
2024	ARI	13	20	16	104	0	80.0	−0.167	5.2	1.3	−3.3	−0.06
2025	ARI	12	20	13	101	1	65.0	−0.079	4.6	0.6	−1.6	−0.06
2026	HOU	3	2	1	8	0	50.0	+0.613	2.0	-1.5	+1.2	+0.02
Career	HOU	39	72	51	332	1	70.8	−0.259	5.6	0.9	−18.7	−0.33

Defence

Counting stats from the play-by-play credits (QB hits from 2006, tackles for loss and passes defensed from 2009).

Season	Team	G	Tackles	Sacks	QB hits	Tackles for loss	INT	Passes defensed	Forced fumbles
2025	ARI	12	5	0.0	0	0	0	0	0

Playing time

Scrimmage snaps from 2016, in the games he played (share: of his team’s snaps in those games). A season’s snaps appear after its playoffs, when the data is published. Who was on the field: NFL Next Gen Stats via nflverse (2016–22) and FTN Data via nflverse (2023 on), CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Team	G	Offensive snaps	Share of the offence’s snaps	Defensive snaps	Share of the defence’s snaps
2023	ARI	14	292	31.2	–	–
2024	ARI	13	158	19.8	–	–
2025	ARI	11	196	27.0	–	–

Hands and contested catches

Regular season, 2022 on. Charting: FTN Data via nflverse, CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Targets charted	Catchable %	Drops	Drop % of catchable	Contested targets	Contested catch %
2023	30	76.7	3	13.0	1	0.0
2024	20	80.0	0	0.0	0	–
2025	20	75.0	2	13.3	1	0.0
2026	2	50.0	0	0.0	0	–

Game logs

2026 game log (3 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
1	2026-09-13	@ NYG	L 20–28	2	7	−0.3	0	0	0	0.0
2	2026-09-20	vs WAS	W 37–20	3	8	−0.8	0	0	0	0.0
9	2026-11-08	@ LAC	W 44–22	6	16	−2.6	2	1	8	+1.2

2025 game log (12 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2025-09-07	@ NO	W 20–13	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
3	2025-09-21	@ SF	L 15–16	2	0	−2.5	1	0	0	0	−1.2	0
4	2025-09-25	vs SEA	L 20–23	2	8	−0.2	2	2	13	1	+2.7	0
5	2025-10-05	vs TEN	L 21–22	3	81	−3.1	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
6	2025-10-12	@ IND	L 27–31	1	1	−0.4	1	0	0	0	−0.9	0
9	2025-11-03	@ DAL	W 27–17	14	79	+0.3	1	1	-1	0	−0.9	0
10	2025-11-09	@ SEA	L 22–44	4	64	+2.1	4	3	40	0	+1.4	0
11	2025-11-16	vs SF	L 22–41	5	8	−2.0	3	2	12	0	−0.4	0
15	2025-12-14	@ HOU	L 20–40	1	1	−0.5	3	2	0	0	−3.1	0
16	2025-12-21	vs ATL	L 19–26	5	30	+0.0	1	0	0	0	−1.1	0
17	2025-12-28	@ CIN	L 14–37	5	11	−1.6	3	2	9	0	−2.5	2
18	2026-01-04	@ LA	L 20–37	2	29	+1.0	1	1	28	0	+4.4	1

2024 game log (13 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
1	2024-09-08	@ BUF	L 28–34	0	0	0	0.0	2	2	26	+1.6
2	2024-09-15	vs LA	W 41–10	2	46	0	+4.0	0	0	0	0.0
3	2024-09-22	vs DET	L 13–20	2	7	0	−0.4	0	0	0	0.0
4	2024-09-29	vs WAS	L 14–42	4	24	0	−0.1	1	1	0	−1.4
5	2024-10-06	@ SF	W 24–23	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	0	−1.3
6	2024-10-13	@ GB	L 13–34	4	25	0	+3.8	7	5	39	+0.9
7	2024-10-21	vs LAC	W 17–15	1	14	0	−0.2	0	0	0	0.0
8	2024-10-27	@ MIA	W 28–27	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	−1.3
9	2024-11-03	vs CHI	W 29–9	4	59	1	+3.9	2	2	21	+1.8
10	2024-11-10	vs NYJ	W 31–6	3	22	0	+1.5	0	0	0	0.0
12	2024-11-24	@ SEA	L 6–16	1	14	0	−0.0	0	0	0	0.0
13	2024-12-01	@ MIN	L 22–23	3	12	0	−0.2	2	1	3	−0.8
14	2024-12-08	vs SEA	L 18–30	0	0	0	0.0	4	4	15	−2.9

2023 game log (11 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
2	2023-09-17	vs NYG	L 28–31	1	-2	0	−0.6	2	2	7	−1.8
3	2023-09-24	vs DAL	W 28–16	2	2	0	−0.7	0	0	0	0.0
4	2023-10-01	@ SF	L 16–35	1	3	0	−0.3	4	3	21	−0.8
5	2023-10-08	vs CIN	L 20–34	10	45	1	+0.0	3	1	12	−0.7
6	2023-10-15	@ LA	L 9–26	2	11	0	+0.6	1	1	6	−0.1
7	2023-10-22	@ SEA	L 10–20	13	58	0	−0.2	5	4	17	−1.9
8	2023-10-29	vs BAL	L 24–31	20	78	0	−6.9	1	1	1	−1.1
12	2023-11-26	vs LA	L 14–37	3	15	0	−0.9	0	0	0	0.0
15	2023-12-17	vs SF	L 29–45	4	64	1	+3.5	3	1	6	−2.9
16	2023-12-24	@ CHI	L 16–27	2	10	0	+0.2	8	7	40	−4.7
17	2023-12-31	@ PHI	W 35–31	0	0	0	0.0	3	1	9	−1.0