RJ Harvey or David Montgomery: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price RJ Harvey at 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 74th highest figure of the 185 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 81st highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on RJ Harvey: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 54th 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 through Week 4

Through Week 4, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 43 percent of DEN snaps, taken 20 percent of the carries, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have come 2.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against KC he carried 3 times for 18 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 41 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 7 times for 25 yards, caught 10 of 10 targets for 68 yards and did not score.

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 RJ Harvey played 17 games and scored 206.6 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing RB20.

He carried 146 times for 540 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 47 of 58 targets for 356 more yards.

That came to 8.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 2.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 41 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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 RJ Harvey scored 12.2 PPR points a game and David Montgomery 9.8, 2.3 a game between them.

RJ Harvey finished RB20 that year and David Montgomery RB27.

David Montgomery had 12 more carries than RJ Harvey, 158 to 146.

RJ Harvey had 23 more catches than David Montgomery, 47 to 24.

This season David Montgomery holds the bigger snap share, 54 percent against 43 percent.

This season David Montgomery holds the bigger share of the carries, 52 percent against 20 percent.

Byes and availability

RJ Harvey is off in Week 10 and David Montgomery in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.7 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.