Which Lions RB to rank higher: Gibbs or Montgomery? | Yahoo Fantasy Football Show

Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Dalton Del Don discuss Detroit’s pair of ball carriers and debate how the workload will be split moving forward following the rookie’s big performance on Monday night. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Football Show” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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MATT HARMON: How about Jahmyr Gibbs? How good did he look?

DALTON DEL DON: Awesome.

MATT HARMON: He looked great. Yeah, we love to see that. How do you rank those guys going forward?

DALTON DEL DON: Gibbs versus Montgomery?

MATT HARMON: Yeah.

DALTON DEL DON: Yeah, I mean, we're just guessing the health of Montgomery. So I don't know. I will say this. When Montgomery returns, I expect it to return to be the same as it was before. And you've got to rank Montgomery higher. And I think, I don't know, I'm still going to expect him to treat-- OK, I love to hear that because I have more Gibbs than I do Montgomery. But you think it'll more be an even split?

MATT HARMON: I think it could be more even than we saw earlier. Like, I don't know. The days of David Montgomery carrying the ball 30 times like he did against the Packers, those might be over. Like, I think the usage from that game probably never happens again the rest of the season. Because they don't need to, by the way. Like, if Jahmyr Gibbs is looking this good, you don't want David Montgomery taking 30 damn carries because he's going to get hurt. We just saw it happen.

DALTON DEL DON: Yeah. He'll take all the touchdowns. But also, Gibbs is looking so good as a receiver, they need to-- he's earned those targets. Those should continue as well. But yeah, that's fair. Maybe it is closer. Definitely closer to an even split than it was before.

MATT HARMON: I think where at the start of the year, where Jahmyr Gibbs completely unusable in fantasy, even though people kept using him, and David Montgomery was like a running back one, I think it's more likely that both of these guys are running back twos.