David Montgomery Camp Update — August 23: Rested While the Backfield Thins
2026 NFL Season · Sunday, Aug 23
David Montgomery's week was mostly rest: no attributed line in the Raiders game, carries with mixed results in Saturday's practice, and a backfield around him suddenly down to two healthy names plus one.
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David Montgomery's only attributed work this week came in Saturday's practice, where Cody Stoots at HouFootball dot com charted him carrying the ball in a run-heavy session with mixed results. He has no line in the coverage of Thursday's 22 to 20 loss to the Raiders — most Houston starters were held out after Tuesday's joint practice gave the staff what it needed, per Jared Koch at Texans On SI — and the joint-practice charting we can cite went to other names. A quiet week, and for a seventh-year back in late August, rest is not a bad use of one.
The louder story was the room around him. By Saturday the backfield was down to Montgomery, Woody Marks, and one healthy body behind them, with Noah Whittington, British Brooks, and Jawhar Jordan all sidelined, per Stoots. Marks, meanwhile, kept producing — a touchdown catch from C.J. Stroud in the joint practice and a 20-yard touchdown run against the Raiders, per Koch. The June read on Montgomery was that the juice was real and the bet was touches, in a tandem the team itself describes as two backs with defined lanes; nothing this week moved that, but the tandem's other half had the better August week again.
Next week: the joint practice in Carolina and Friday's finale, then cutdown on Sunday. Watch whether Montgomery takes the first-team backfield work when the starters play, and how many backs survive the cut behind the top two, because a thinned room concentrates September touches. We'll check after cut day.
_Data via nflverse._
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