Derrick Henry or Cam Skattebo: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Derrick Henry: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 1st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cam Skattebo: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 24th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Derrick Henry is 23.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 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.

Cam Skattebo's market-based projection is 12.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 159 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Derrick Henry has been on the field for 58 percent of BAL snaps, taken 72 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 55 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 13 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have come 3.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against DAL he carried 26 times for 89 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 4 against TEN he carried 23 times for 73 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against ATL he carried 24 times for 102 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Cam Skattebo has been on the field for 65 percent of NYG snaps, taken 57 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 3 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 2.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against TEN he carried 20 times for 60 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against ARI he carried 18 times for 58 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he carried 13 times for 59 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Cam Skattebo played 8 games and scored 127.7 PPR points, 16.0 a game, finishing RB37.

He carried 101 times for 410 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 32 targets for 207 more yards.

That came to 12.6 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

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

Derrick Henry was available for 9 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Derrick Henry scored 16.4 PPR points a game and Cam Skattebo 16.0, 0.5 a game between them.

Derrick Henry finished RB8 that year and Cam Skattebo RB37.

Derrick Henry had 206 more carries than Cam Skattebo, 307 to 101.

Cam Skattebo had 9 more catches than Derrick Henry, 24 to 15.

This season Cam Skattebo holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 58 percent.

This season Derrick Henry holds the bigger share of the carries, 72 percent against 57 percent.

Byes and availability

Derrick Henry is off in Week 13 and Cam Skattebo in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Derrick Henry is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.