Seth McGowan or David Montgomery: who should I start in Week 6?
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.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB37 · IND · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 117
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
RB38 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs carries line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 9.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 121
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size198 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Seth McGowan: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on David Montgomery: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 33.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Seth McGowan is 3.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 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.
The market-based projection for David Montgomery is 2.6 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.
Seth McGowan's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Seth McGowan has been on the field for 18 percent of IND snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against HOU he carried 4 times for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against WAS he carried 6 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against PIT he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 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.
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Their 2025 seasons
Seth McGowan is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Head to head
This season David Montgomery holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 18 percent.
This season David Montgomery holds the bigger share of the carries, 45 percent against 13 percent.
Byes and availability
David Montgomery is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Seth McGowan.
David Montgomery is listed as doubtful on the injury report.
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