Should I start Blake Corum or Derrick Henry in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Blake Corum, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Derrick Henry, and the board ranks him 32nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Blake Corum is 13.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Derrick Henry's market-based projection is 12.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 54th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Blake Corum's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Blake Corum has been on the field for 30 percent of LAR snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 2 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 39 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 0.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against ARI he carried 9 times for 42 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against LV he carried 17 times for 93 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against LAC he carried 11 times for 73 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Derrick Henry has been on the field for 56 percent of BAL snaps, taken 71 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 51 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 16 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have come 2.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against CLE he carried 17 times for 58 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he carried 17 times for 45 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he carried 11 times for 53 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Blake Corum played 17 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB40.

He carried 145 times for 746 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 14 targets for 36 more yards.

That came to 8-9 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Derrick Henry played 17 games and scored 279.5 PPR points, 16.4 a game, finishing RB8.

He carried 307 times for 1595 yards and 16 touchdowns, and caught 15 of 21 targets for 150 more yards.

That came to 18.1 carries a game at 5.2 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Derrick Henry scored 16.4 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 9.3 a game between them.

Blake Corum finished RB40 that year and Derrick Henry RB8.

Derrick Henry had 162 more carries than Blake Corum, 307 to 145.

Derrick Henry had 7 more catches than Blake Corum, 15 to 8.

This season Derrick Henry holds the bigger snap share, 56 percent against 30 percent.

This season Derrick Henry holds the bigger share of the carries, 71 percent against 37 percent.

Byes and availability

Blake Corum is off in Week 11 and Derrick Henry in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Blake Corum has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.