Should I start Chris Olave or David Montgomery in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Olave, and the board ranks him 11th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 9.

Live drafts hold no current pick on David Montgomery, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 33.

The market-based projections

Chris Olave's market-based projection is 16.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 20th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for David Montgomery is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

David Montgomery's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 9, Chris Olave has been on the field for 81 percent of NO snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 21 of the offence's 75 third down targets, had 1 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 83 targets have averaged 13.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 4 of 7 targets for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against PIT he caught 6 of 10 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against CLE he caught 7 of 12 targets for 98 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, David Montgomery has been on the field for 46 percent of HOU snaps, taken 45 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 3 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 3.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against IND he carried 11 times for 33 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DAL he carried 10 times for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TEN he carried 5 times for 11 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chris Olave played 16 games and scored 269.0 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing WR6.

He caught 100 of 156 targets for 1163 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 9.8 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 84 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 David Montgomery played 17 games and scored 166.9 PPR points, 9.8 a game, finishing RB27.

He carried 158 times for 716 yards and 8 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 29 targets for 192 more yards.

That came to 9.3 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 37 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

David Montgomery was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Chris Olave scored 16.8 PPR points a game and David Montgomery 9.8, 7.0 a game between them.

Chris Olave finished WR6 and David Montgomery RB27, which are two different ladders.

Chris Olave is a wide receiver and David Montgomery a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

David Montgomery is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

David Montgomery has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.