Justice Hill or Emari Demercado: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Justice Hill: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 159th 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 Justice Hill at 3.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 80 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, Justice Hill has been on the field for 41 percent of BAL snaps, taken 11 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 0 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 2.5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against NO he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against DAL he carried 5 times for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TEN he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 22 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 Justice Hill played 10 games and scored 65.2 PPR points, 6.5 a game, finishing RB60.

He carried 18 times for 93 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 21 of 27 targets for 169 more yards.

That came to 1.8 carries a game at 5.2 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 37 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.

Emari Demercado was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Justice Hill scored 6.5 PPR points a game and Emari Demercado 4.5, 2.0 a game between them.

Justice Hill finished RB60 that year and Emari Demercado RB65.

Emari Demercado had 26 more carries than Justice Hill, 44 to 18.

Justice Hill had 8 more catches than Emari Demercado, 21 to 13.

This season Justice Hill holds the bigger snap share, 41 percent against 12 percent.

This season Emari Demercado holds the bigger share of the carries, 13 percent against 11 percent.