Emari Demercado or Pat Bryant: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

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.

Our board does not carry Pat Bryant 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

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

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

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season so far

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.

Through Week 4, Pat Bryant has been on the field for 58 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 6.7 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he carried 1 time for 16 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 2 of 2 targets for 44 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 3 of 3 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Pat Bryant played 15 games and scored 74.8 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing WR85.

He caught 31 of 49 targets for 378 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 12.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Pat Bryant was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Pat Bryant scored 5.0 PPR points a game and Emari Demercado 4.5, 0.5 a game between them.

Emari Demercado finished RB65 and Pat Bryant WR85, which are two different ladders.

Emari Demercado is a running back and Pat Bryant a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.