Should I start Chuba Hubbard or David Montgomery in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chuba Hubbard, and the board ranks him 15th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on David Montgomery, and the board ranks him 56th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 33.

The market-based projections

Chuba Hubbard's market-based projection is 15.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 12th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for David Montgomery is 5.0 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 8, Chuba Hubbard has been on the field for 80 percent of CAR snaps, taken 72 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 35 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 7 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against PHI he carried 28 times for 120 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 1 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against TB he carried 7 times for 33 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against GB he carried 22 times for 81 yards, caught 7 of 8 targets for 38 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Chuba Hubbard played 15 games and scored 125.4 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing RB38.

He carried 134 times for 511 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 39 targets for 223 more yards.

That came to 8.9 carries a game at 3.8 yards a carry and 2.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 47 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 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 David Montgomery scored 9.8 PPR points a game and Chuba Hubbard 8.4, 1.5 a game between them.

Chuba Hubbard finished RB38 that year and David Montgomery RB27.

David Montgomery had 24 more carries than Chuba Hubbard, 158 to 134.

Chuba Hubbard had 6 more catches than David Montgomery, 30 to 24.

This season Chuba Hubbard holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 46 percent.

This season Chuba Hubbard holds the bigger share of the carries, 72 percent against 45 percent.

Byes and availability

Chuba Hubbard is off in Week 5 and David Montgomery in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.