Should I start David Montgomery or Dohnte Meyers in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 12:51 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start David Montgomery: 42 percent of the snaps and 40 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Dohnte Meyers's 43 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets. 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.
RB17 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs carries line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 57
WR22 · CIN · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 4.4 pts a game
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The gap
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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 57th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 33.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Dohnte Meyers, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
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.
Dohnte Meyers's market-based projection is 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 59th highest figure of the 212 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 8, Dohnte Meyers has been on the field for 45 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 1 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 43 two minute targets.
His 23 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.
In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against BAL he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against TEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 34 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.
Dohnte Meyers is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
David Montgomery is a running back and Dohnte Meyers a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
David Montgomery is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Dohnte Meyers.
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.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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