Should I start David Montgomery or Dalton Schultz in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on David Montgomery, and the board ranks him 102nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 33.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dalton Schultz, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for David Montgomery is 5.5 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.

Dalton Schultz's market-based projection is 8.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 103rd highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based 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 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.

Through Week 6, Dalton Schultz has been on the field for 58 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against JAX he caught 4 of 6 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Dalton Schultz played 17 games and scored 177.7 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE10.

He caught 82 of 106 targets for 777 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.2 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Dalton Schultz scored 10.5 PPR points a game and David Montgomery 9.8, 0.6 a game between them.

David Montgomery finished RB27 and Dalton Schultz TE10, which are two different ladders.

David Montgomery is a running back and Dalton Schultz a tight end, 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 questionable on the injury report.

Dalton Schultz is listed as questionable 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.