Should I start Colston Loveland or Derrick Henry in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Colston Loveland's market-based projection is 13.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 64th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Derrick Henry's market-based projection is 12.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colston Loveland, and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Derrick Henry, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 86 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 2 of its 40 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 51 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 65 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against NE he caught 7 of 12 targets for 69 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against SEA he caught 7 of 9 targets for 65 yards and did not score.

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 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 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.

Derrick Henry was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Derrick Henry scored 16.4 PPR points a game and Colston Loveland 10.3, 6.1 a game between them.

Colston Loveland finished TE12 and Derrick Henry RB8, which are two different ladders.

Colston Loveland 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

Colston Loveland is off in Week 10 and Derrick Henry in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.8 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.