Should I start David Montgomery or Devaughn Vele in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 4:46 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Devaughn Vele: 90 percent of the snaps and 19 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against David Montgomery's 42 percent of the snaps and 40 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

David Montgomery

RB28 · HOU · bye 8

2026 vs carries line 1-4

Market-based projection: 9.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank: 80

Devaughn Vele

WR33 · NO · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 2-3

Market-based projection: 10.5 pts a game

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The gap

Board size329 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on David Montgomery, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 33.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Devaughn Vele, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for David Montgomery, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Devaughn Vele's market-based projection is 10.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 80th highest figure of the 193 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 5

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 5, Devaughn Vele has been on the field for 91 percent of NO snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 9.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against LV he caught 3 of 6 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against ATL he caught 6 of 9 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 4 of 6 targets for 26 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 Devaughn Vele played 13 games and scored 66.3 PPR points, 5.1 a game, finishing WR95.

He caught 25 of 39 targets for 293 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

David Montgomery was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 David Montgomery scored 9.8 PPR points a game and Devaughn Vele 5.1, 4.7 a game between them.

David Montgomery finished RB27 and Devaughn Vele WR95, which are two different ladders.

David Montgomery is a running back and Devaughn Vele a wide receiver, 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 no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.