Blake Corum or Emari Demercado: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Blake Corum: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Emari Demercado at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

What the player markets price

The market has Blake Corum at 7.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 16 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

No season market is posted for Emari Demercado, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Blake Corum has been on the field for 27 percent of LAR snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against NYG he carried 12 times for 79 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against DEN he carried 6 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PHI he carried 5 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 2, Emari Demercado has been on the field for 12 percent of DAL snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

In Week 1 against NYG he carried 2 times for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against WAS he carried 3 times for 8 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Blake Corum played 17 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB40.

He carried 145 times for 746 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 14 targets for 36 more yards.

That came to 8.5 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Emari Demercado played 13 games and scored 58.3 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing RB65.

He carried 44 times for 312 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 13 of 20 targets for 101 more yards.

That came to 3.4 carries a game at 7.1 yards a carry and 1.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 23 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Blake Corum was available for 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Blake Corum scored 7.2 PPR points a game and Emari Demercado 4.5, 2.7 a game between them.

Blake Corum finished RB40 that year and Emari Demercado RB65.

Blake Corum had 101 more carries than Emari Demercado, 145 to 44.

Emari Demercado had 5 more catches than Blake Corum, 13 to 8.

This season Blake Corum holds the bigger snap share, 27 percent against 12 percent.

This season Blake Corum holds the bigger share of the carries, 33 percent against 13 percent.

Byes and availability

Blake Corum is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Emari Demercado.