Should I start Jeremy McNichols or David Montgomery in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 9:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Jeremy McNichols: Questionable to IR (Foot) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Jeremy McNichols: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start David Montgomery: 42 percent of the snaps and 40 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jeremy McNichols's 19 percent of the snaps and 24 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB31 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 1-16
- Market-based projection
- 5.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 96
RB33 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs carries line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 99
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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 Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on David Montgomery, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 33.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jeremy McNichols, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The market-based projection for David Montgomery is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 19 percent of WAS snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 1.0 air yards.
In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against PHI he carried 5 times for 21 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.
He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.
That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 33 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 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.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 David Montgomery scored 9.8 PPR points a game and Jeremy McNichols 4.3, 5.5 a game between them.
Jeremy McNichols finished RB58 that year and David Montgomery RB27.
David Montgomery had 114 more carries than Jeremy McNichols, 158 to 44.
Jeremy McNichols had 1 more catches than David Montgomery, 25 to 24.
This season David Montgomery holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 19 percent.
This season David Montgomery holds the bigger share of the carries, 45 percent against 24 percent.
Byes and availability
Jeremy McNichols is off in Week 7 and David Montgomery in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jeremy McNichols is listed as ir on the injury report.
David Montgomery is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Should I drop David Montgomery?
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