Fantasy Football Player Notes

Well, this sucks. I expected David Montgomery to be Houston's workhorse back this season, and over the last two weeks that hasn't happened. Since Week 2, Montgomery has had a 57.8% snap rate with 43.6% of the rushing attempts, a 44.1% route share, and a 4.8% target share. In these two games, he has averaged 10.5 touches and 36 total yards. This is barely flex-worthy volume behind a horrid offensive line. Montgomery hasn't been efficient with his workload so far, though. He has only a 3% explosive run rate, 1.57 yards after contact per attempt, and a 14% missed tackle rate. None of that is good. At all. Montgomery has another nice matchup this week, but he wasn't able to do anything with last week's solid matchup, so I don't know if he'll be able to take advantage this week. Dallas has allowed the third-highest explosive run rate, the seventh-highest rushing success rate, and the eighth-most yards before contact per attempt.

Woody Marks has made this Houston backfield into a committee. I didn't see that coming this offseason. Over the last two weeks, Marks has had a 41.4% snap rate, 33.3% of the rushing attempts, a 34.4% route share, and an 8.4% target share. Marks has averaged 9.5 touches and 28 total yards. Marks has had only 1.64 yards after contact per attempt, but he has also posted a stellar 27% missed tackle rate. Marks is a viable flex this week if you're in a pinch. Dallas has allowed the third-highest explosive run rate, the seventh-highest rushing success rate, and the eighth-most yards before contact per attempt.

Dalton Schultz is the TE7 in fantasy points per game, but that is entirely fueled by his performance against Cincy, when he looked like Houston's Brock Bowers. In the other two games this season, Schultz hasn't had more than four receptions and 35 receiving yards in either game. Schultz also saw his route share dip to 64.5% last week, which is something I didn't see coming after his massive Week 2 performance with a 74.6% route share. Overall, Schultz has a 20.7% target share, 2.09 YPRR, one red zone target, zero deep targets, and a 21% first-read share. We could see Schultz's role bounce back this week against a defense that has allowed the tenth-most yards per target and the fifth-most fantasy points per opportunity to tight ends.