The odds never were on Quintin Demps' side when he graduated from UTEP and entered the NFL in 2008 as a fourth-round draft pick of the Philadelphia Eagles.
About 17 percent of fourth-round picks make it to a fourth year in the NFL, about 11 percent start.
The Houston Texans safety Demps, who is coming to town this weekend to throw out the first pitch at Monday night's El Paso Chiahuahuas game and speak at a camp in Clint, couldn't think about those odds or that far into the future when he set out to make the Eagles.