Should I start David Montgomery or Harold Fannin Jr. in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 5:01 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

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Start Harold Fannin Jr.: 91 percent of the snaps and 13 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.

Should I drop Harold Fannin Jr. for David Montgomery?

Yes, on the rest of the season. David Montgomery projects 105 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 10 games), Harold Fannin Jr. 96 (9.6 a game over 10 games). David Montgomery is listed questionable.

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

David Montgomery

RB30 · HOU · bye 8

2026 vs carries line 1-4

Overall rank: 90

Harold Fannin Jr.

TE13 · CLE · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection: 8.6 pts a game

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The gap

Board size311 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 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 33.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Harold Fannin Jr., and the board ranks him 91st 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.

Harold Fannin Jr.'s market-based projection is 8.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 94th highest figure of the 210 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, Harold Fannin Jr. has been on the field for 88 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against PIT he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYJ he caught 1 of 4 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against BAL he caught 1 of 3 targets for 9 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 Harold Fannin Jr. played 16 games and scored 186.4 PPR points, 11.7 a game, finishing TE6.

He caught 72 of 107 targets for 731 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 10.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

David Montgomery was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Harold Fannin Jr. scored 11.7 PPR points a game and David Montgomery 9.8, 1.8 a game between them.

David Montgomery finished RB27 and Harold Fannin Jr. TE6, which are two different ladders.

David Montgomery is a running back and Harold Fannin Jr. a tight end, 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 and Harold Fannin Jr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

David Montgomery 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.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Harold Fannin Jr. for David Montgomery?
Yes, on the rest of the season. David Montgomery projects 105 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 10 games), Harold Fannin Jr. 96 (9.6 a game over 10 games). David Montgomery is listed questionable.
Should I drop David Montgomery for Harold Fannin Jr.?
No. Keep David Montgomery: he projects 105 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 10 games), Harold Fannin Jr. 96 (9.6 a game over 10 games). David Montgomery is listed questionable.