Should I start Hunter Henry or Brock Bowers in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Hunter Henry, and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Bowers, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 32.

The market-based projections

Hunter Henry's market-based projection is 9.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 52nd highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Brock Bowers is 3.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Hunter Henry has been on the field for 73 percent of NE snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against LV he caught 3 of 4 targets for 44 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 4 of 5 targets for 48 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against CHI he caught 7 of 7 targets for 71 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 83 percent of LV snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 21 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 51 targets have averaged 10.2 air yards.

In Week 5 against NE he caught 8 of 10 targets for 110 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against BUF he caught 4 of 9 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against LAR he caught 6 of 8 targets for 73 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Hunter Henry played 17 games and scored 178.8 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE9.

He caught 60 of 87 targets for 768 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 22 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 12.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Brock Bowers played 12 games and scored 176.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE11.

He caught 64 of 86 targets for 680 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Hunter Henry was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Hunter Henry 10.5, 4.2 a game between them.

Hunter Henry finished TE9 that year and Brock Bowers TE11.

Hunter Henry had 1 more targets than Brock Bowers, 87 to 86.

Hunter Henry had 88 more receiving yards than Brock Bowers, 768 to 680.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger snap share, 83 percent against 73 percent.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger target share, 26 percent against 15 percent.

Byes and availability

Hunter Henry is off in Week 11 and Brock Bowers in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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