Should I start Chig Okonkwo or Derrick Henry in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chig Okonkwo, and the board ranks him 92nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Derrick Henry, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Chig Okonkwo's market-based projection is 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 82nd highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Derrick Henry is 6.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Chig Okonkwo has been on the field for 68 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 7.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 7 of 7 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he caught 2 of 4 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAR he caught 6 of 7 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Derrick Henry has been on the field for 55 percent of BAL snaps, taken 68 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 72 third down targets, had 16 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 49 two minute targets.

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

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.

In Week 9 against JAX he carried 17 times for 57 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chig Okonkwo played 17 games and scored 124.0 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing TE21.

He caught 56 of 79 targets for 560 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 62 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.

Side by side

In 2025 Derrick Henry scored 16.4 PPR points a game and Chig Okonkwo 7.3, 9.1 a game between them.

Chig Okonkwo finished TE21 and Derrick Henry RB8, which are two different ladders.

Chig Okonkwo is a tight end and Derrick Henry a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Chig Okonkwo is off in Week 7 and Derrick Henry in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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