Should I start David Montgomery or Tyler Higbee in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on David Montgomery, and the board ranks him 77th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 33.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Higbee, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

Tyler Higbee's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based 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 6, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 57 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 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.

In 2025 Tyler Higbee played 10 games and scored 71.1 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing TE40.

He caught 25 of 36 targets for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 3.6 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

David Montgomery was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 David Montgomery scored 9.8 PPR points a game and Tyler Higbee 7.1, 2.7 a game between them.

David Montgomery finished RB27 and Tyler Higbee TE40, which are two different ladders.

David Montgomery is a running back and Tyler Higbee a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

David Montgomery is off in Week 8 and Tyler Higbee in Week 11, 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.