Emari Demercado or Samaje Perine: who should I start in Week 3?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 3:56 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and no sportsbook prices either of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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The gap
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Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Our board does not carry Emari Demercado at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and the sportsbooks have no priced market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
Our board does not carry Samaje Perine at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and the sportsbooks have no priced market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Emari Demercado, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Samaje Perine, so the only market pricing 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 through Week 2
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 2, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 34 percent of CIN snaps, taken 15 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 10 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.
In Week 1 against TB he carried 5 times for 20 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 30 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against HOU he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 16 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 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.
He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.
That came to 5.6 carries a game at 4.5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Samaje Perine was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Emari Demercado 4.5, 0.7 a game between them.
Emari Demercado finished RB65 that year and Samaje Perine RB57.
Samaje Perine had 40 more carries than Emari Demercado, 84 to 44.
Samaje Perine had 4 more catches than Emari Demercado, 17 to 13.
This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger snap share, 34 percent against 12 percent.
This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger share of the carries, 15 percent against 13 percent.
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