Should I start David Montgomery or Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 2:16 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start David Montgomery: 42 percent of the snaps and 40 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Pierre Strong Jr.'s 23 percent of the snaps and 12 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.
RB36 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs carries line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 116
RB39 · GB · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 125
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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 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 33.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Pierre Strong Jr., and the board ranks him 125th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for David Montgomery is 4.6 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.
The market has Pierre Strong Jr. at 3.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 7 market sources. That is 70 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 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 9, Pierre Strong Jr. has been on the field for 23 percent of GB snaps, taken 12 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 7 against DET he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against CAR he carried 1 time for 2 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against NE he carried 8 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 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.
The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong Jr. in the last completed season.
Head to head
This season David Montgomery holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 23 percent.
This season David Montgomery holds the bigger share of the carries, 45 percent against 12 percent.
Byes and availability
David Montgomery is off in Week 8 and Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
David Montgomery is listed as out on the injury report.
Both players in full
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