{"id":849106,"date":"2026-04-02T11:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849106\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:32:49","slug":"david-montgomery-is-david-montgomery-really-the-bell-cow-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849106\/","title":{"rendered":"David Montgomery Is David Montgomery Really the Bell Cow in Houston?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Texans running back David Montgomery earned high praise from his former head coach at this week&#8217;s annual NFL meetings. Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell described Montgomery as &#8220;unbelievable&#8221; and said that the veteran running back will have an opportunity to establish himself as the Texans&#8217; bell cow. This could purely be coachspeak as Campbell tries to hype up this offseason&#8217;s Lions-Texans trade, as we haven&#8217;t heard the Texans echo his comments (yet). With that being said, we wouldn&#8217;t be shocked to see Houston feature Montgomery in a very prominent role after actively going out and trading for him this offseason. He&#8217;s a clear upgrade over rookie Woody Marks, who flashed upside but ultimately showed he&#8217;s not ready to be an every-down back. Montgomery has been a top-28 fantasy running back in all seven of his NFL seasons, finishing 2025 with 716 rushing yards, 24 catches, 192 receiving yards, and eight touchdowns despite operating as the No. 2 running back behind Jahmyr Gibbs. Now that he&#8217;s in a lead-back role once again, he should push for north of 1,000 rushing yards, and we can&#8217;t rule out the possibility of him scoring double-digit touchdowns. After slipping to the RB3\/flex tier in 2025, we wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see Montgomery bounce back as a mid-to-high RB2 in 2026. As a result, he&#8217;s an intriguing buy-low candidate in dynasty leagues, despite being 28 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Texans running back David Montgomery earned high praise from his former head coach at this week&#8217;s annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[7,221,253,2368,6,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-849106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-texans","11":"tag-houstontexans","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116334900209656442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}