Emari Demercado or Michael Carter?

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

With Trey Benson landing on short-term IR, Jeff weighs in on the fantasy fallout. He tells you what he's doing with Benson in various league sizes. Jeff then gives you the tale of the tape for Emari Demercado and Michael Carter. He breaks down their experience as lead backs in Arizona, discusses the reporting (or lack thereof) on which figures to lead, warns about the fantasy football echo chamber, and tells you what he thinks is the most likely outcome this week for Demercado and Carter and how to use that information on waivers.

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0:00.0	Wrap back where you at.
0:14.7	Yo, what's going on?
0:17.8	It's Wednesday, October 1st.
0:19.4	October is here.
0:20.2	I'm Jeff.
0:21.3	This is the rant.
0:23.2	Dramatic pause there.
0:24.9	Hey, normally on Wednesdays, I like to do biggest rankings, risers and fallers.
0:29.6	But, well, given the news today, I figured it would be probably a good idea.
0:34.8	It would be helpful to you guys.
0:36.2	If I just dove in on this
0:37.8	Trey Benson, Amari Di Mercado, Michael Carter story. So that's what we're going to do on the
0:43.5	podcast today. Probably these guys have all been picked up at this point. If you're
0:49.0	listened to this now, Amari DiMarcato may have already been picked up in waivers last
0:53.3	night. Michael Carter probably scooped up today.
0:57.1	However, some people do have waiver runs on Wednesday night, and I still think it's going
1:00.8	to help from a clarity standpoint.
1:02.8	Just to hear my perspective in general, what I expect for this backfield, how I'm
1:07.0	navigating these waters for fantasy football purposes.
1:09.4	And let's just start with Benson first and foremost. So he already had arthroscopic surgery on his meniscus. The expectations of four to six
1:17.5	week absence was placed on injured reserve already. So tough blow here for Arizona. Tough blow for
1:24.8	Benson because that was his opportunity. And now it does explain a little bit of Demarcato's usage this past week. I mean, it felt like, uh-oh, they were using a lot of Demercato. Was this going to be a split? No, it apparently was not going to be. It was supposed to be a lot of Benson. And he may have been playing through the injury. It may have occurred early
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