Should I start Kyle Monangai or Ray Davis in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 12:36 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kyle Monangai: 41 percent of the snaps and 43 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Ray Davis's 12 percent of the snaps and 5 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.
RB · CHI · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 4-0
- Overall rank
- 256
RB · BUF · on bye this week
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 2.5 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 262
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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 Kyle Monangai, and the board ranks him 256th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Ray Davis, and the board ranks him 262nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Kyle Monangai, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Ray Davis, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Kyle Monangai has been on the field for 41 percent of CHI snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 6 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.
In Week 2 against MIN he carried 10 times for 47 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against PHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 30 times for 146 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
Through Week 6, Ray Davis has been on the field for 11 percent of BUF snaps, taken 3 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAR he carried 2 times for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against LV he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Kyle Monangai played 17 games and scored 146.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB30.
He carried 169 times for 783 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 18 of 30 targets for 164 more yards.
That came to 9.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Ray Davis played 17 games and scored 64.1 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB61.
He carried 58 times for 275 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 13 targets for 86 more yards.
That came to 3.4 carries a game at 4.7 yards a carry and 0.6 catches a game.
He was on the field for 11 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Kyle Monangai scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Ray Davis 3.8, 4.9 a game between them.
Kyle Monangai finished RB30 that year and Ray Davis RB61.
Kyle Monangai had 111 more carries than Ray Davis, 169 to 58.
Kyle Monangai had 8 more catches than Ray Davis, 18 to 10.
This season Kyle Monangai holds the bigger snap share, 41 percent against 11 percent.
This season Kyle Monangai holds the bigger share of the carries, 39 percent against 3 percent.
Byes and availability
Kyle Monangai is off in Week 10 and Ray Davis in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Kyle Monangai is listed as out on the injury report.
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