Should I start Kendre Miller or David Montgomery in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on David Montgomery, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 33.

The market-based projections

Kendre Miller's market-based projection is 8.1 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 44th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.

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.

David Montgomery's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Kendre Miller has been on the field for 30 percent of NO snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 4 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against ATL he carried 6 times for 9 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIN he carried 10 times for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NYG he carried 20 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 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 Kendre Miller played 7 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB79.

He carried 47 times for 193 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 more yards.

That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 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.

David Montgomery was available for 10 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 David Montgomery scored 9.8 PPR points a game and Kendre Miller 4.8, 5.1 a game between them.

Kendre Miller finished RB79 that year and David Montgomery RB27.

David Montgomery had 111 more carries than Kendre Miller, 158 to 47.

David Montgomery had 19 more catches than Kendre Miller, 24 to 5.

This season David Montgomery holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 30 percent.

This season David Montgomery holds the bigger share of the carries, 45 percent against 39 percent.

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 only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.