{"id":422095,"date":"2026-08-31T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422095\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:38:08","slug":"dallas-cowboys-claim-rb-emari-demercado-off-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422095\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys claim RB Emari Demercado off waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Dallas Cowboys parted ways with running backs Phil Mafah and Jaydon Blue on Sunday as they were included in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloggingtheboys.com\/dallas-cowboys-depth-chart\/216209\/7-surprise-cuts-53-man-roster-jaydon-blue-sam-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">roster cuts<\/a>. They have now added a new running back as they have claimed Emari Dermercado off of waivers from the Kansas City Chiefs. He signed a one-year deal for $1.25 million with them in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A former undrafted free agent out of TCU in 2023, Demercado spent his first three NFL seasons with the Arizona Cardinals. He\u2019s played in 40 games throughout his career with two starts (both came as a rookie). He ran for 284 yards and two touchdowns in his first year and 223 yards and one touchdown in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Last season, Demercado had his best campaign rushing wise with 312 yards, but he didn\u2019t log a rushing touchdown. He\u2019s averaged 6.5 yards per carry on the pro level, and he\u2019s also gained 324 yards receiving on 50 receptions in his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This move gives the Cowboys some more depth on the roster behind starter Javonte Williams and backups Malik Davis, whose earned the RB2 spot, and Hunter Luepke, who went undrafted in 2023 like Demercado. With his familiarity with Klayton Adams, it\u2019ll be interesting to see if Demercado can carve out a role in Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys parted ways with running backs Phil Mafah and Jaydon Blue on Sunday as they were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,669,104,103],"class_list":["post-422095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys-roster","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}