Jayden Daniels or David Montgomery: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Jayden Daniels at 18.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 15th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The player markets price David Montgomery at 10.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 80th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jayden Daniels: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 62nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on David Montgomery: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 35.

This season so far

Through Week 2, Jayden Daniels has been on the field for 77 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 61 times and thrown 9.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 4 of 61 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 1 against PHI he completed 18 of 34 passes for 164 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 31 yards.

In Week 2 against DAL he completed 11 of 17 passes for 96 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 69 yards.

Through Week 4, David Montgomery has been on the field for 54 percent of HOU snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 35 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 3 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 3.6 air yards.

In Week 2 against CIN he carried 6 times for 10 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jayden Daniels played 7 games and scored 117.3 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB34.

He threw for 1262 yards on 188 attempts with 8 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 278 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 91 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 4.5 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 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jayden Daniels scored 16.8 PPR points a game and David Montgomery 9.8, 6.9 a game between them.

Jayden Daniels finished QB34 and David Montgomery RB27, which are two different ladders.

Jayden Daniels is a quarterback and David Montgomery a running back, 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 Jayden Daniels.

What would change the answer

7.4 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.