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Cards’ Emari Demercado runs 53 yards before the half in TD vs. Bears

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Cards’ Emari Demercado runs 53 yards before the half in TD vs. Bears

  • Josh Weinfuss, ESPN Staff WriterNovember 3, 2024 5:53 pm ET

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      Josh Weinfuss is a staff writer covering the Arizona Cardinals and the NFL for ESPN. Josh has covered the Cardinals since 2012, joining ESPN in 2013. He is a member of the Professional Football Writers of America and a graduate of Indiana University. You can follow him on Twitter @joshweinfuss.

GLENDALE, Ariz. — With 12 seconds left in the first half, and with the Arizona Cardinals facing third-and-5 from their own 47, running back Emari Demercado took a pass from quarterback Kyler Murray and scooted to his right.

He found a hole and burst past the Chicago Bears’ trio and the speedy Josh Blackwell.

From there, Demercado blew another hole in the Bears 48, got out of the 40 and was out of the race.

His touchdown gave Arizona a 21-6 lead at halftime and was the longest touchdown in the final 30 seconds of the first half this season. It was also the Cardinals’ longest rushing touchdown since Kenyan Drake’s 69-yard run in Week 6 of 2020.