Should I start Ryan Flournoy or David Montgomery in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 9:46 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Ryan Flournoy: 77 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against David Montgomery's 42 percent of the snaps and 40 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.
Should I drop Ryan Flournoy for David Montgomery?
Yes, on the rest of the season. David Montgomery projects 105 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 10 games), Ryan Flournoy 79 (7.9 a game over 10 games). David Montgomery is listed questionable.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR34 · DAL · bye 14
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 8.2 pts a game
RB24 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs carries line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 75
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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 Ryan Flournoy, and the board ranks him 73rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on David Montgomery, and the board ranks him 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 33.
The market-based projections
Ryan Flournoy's market-based projection is 8.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 89th highest figure of the 201 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, Ryan Flournoy has been on the field for 74 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 41 two minute targets.
His 36 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.
In Week 4 against HOU he caught 4 of 5 targets for 37 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against TB he caught 3 of 4 targets for 90 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against GB he caught 7 of 9 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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 Ryan Flournoy played 16 games and scored 114.0 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing WR57.
He caught 40 of 56 targets for 475 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 3-4 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.
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 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 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 David Montgomery scored 9.8 PPR points a game and Ryan Flournoy 7.1, 2.7 a game between them.
Ryan Flournoy finished WR57 and David Montgomery RB27, which are two different ladders.
Ryan Flournoy is a wide receiver 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
Ryan Flournoy is off in Week 14 and David Montgomery in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
David Montgomery is listed as questionable 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.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Ryan Flournoy for David Montgomery?
Yes, on the rest of the season. David Montgomery projects 105 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 10 games), Ryan Flournoy 79 (7.9 a game over 10 games). David Montgomery is listed questionable.
Should I drop David Montgomery for Ryan Flournoy?
No. Keep David Montgomery: he projects 105 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 10 games), Ryan Flournoy 79 (7.9 a game over 10 games). David Montgomery is listed questionable.
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