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Should I start Derrick Henry or Corey Kiner in Week 10?

Updated Nov 11, 8:41 PM ET.

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Week 10 verdict

Start

RB · BAL · vs LAC

Market projects
14.8
fantasy pts
LAC D vs RB
22.5
11th most to RBs (2026)
Upside
Moderate
56 of 100 at RB
Snap share
55%
Through Week 9
Target share
6%
Through Week 9
Sit

RB · NE · at DET

Market projects
12.9
fantasy pts
DET D vs RB
18.2
4th fewest to RBs (2026)
Upside
Rising
75 of 100 at RB
Snap share
13%
Through Week 9
Target share
1%
Through Week 9
Start Henry or Kiner? The full Week 10 breakdown

Start Derrick Henry: 49 percent of the snaps and 57 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Corey Kiner's 16 percent of the snaps and 29 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Corey Kiner for Derrick Henry?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Derrick Henry projects 107 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 7 games), Corey Kiner 22 (3.2 a game over 7 games). For Week 10 the call starts Derrick Henry over Corey Kiner, 14.8 to 13.0 projected PPR points.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB12 · BAL · bye 13

2026 vs carries line 4-5

Market-based projection
14.8 pts a game

RB16 · NE · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 1-7

Overall rank
39

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The gap

  • Board size320 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Derrick Henry, and the board ranks him 28th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Derrick Henry's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 42nd highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 13.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 14 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.

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

This season through Week 9

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.

Through Week 9, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 13 percent of NE snaps, taken 20 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against CHI he carried 4 times for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIA he carried 7 times for 38 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against GB he carried 8 times for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Corey Kiner played 4 games and scored 9.3 PPR points, 2.3 a game, finishing RB112.

He carried 12 times for 58 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 more yards.

That came to 3.0 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 7 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Derrick Henry was available for 13 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Derrick Henry scored 16.4 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 14.1 a game between them.

Derrick Henry finished RB8 that year and Corey Kiner RB112.

Derrick Henry had 295 more carries than Corey Kiner, 307 to 12.

Derrick Henry had 13 more catches than Corey Kiner, 15 to 2.

This season Derrick Henry holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 13 percent.

This season Derrick Henry holds the bigger share of the carries, 68 percent against 20 percent.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Corey Kiner for Derrick Henry?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Derrick Henry projects 107 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 7 games), Corey Kiner 22 (3.2 a game over 7 games). For Week 10 the call starts Derrick Henry over Corey Kiner, 14.8 to 13.0 projected PPR points.

  • Should I drop Derrick Henry for Corey Kiner?

    No. Keep Derrick Henry: he projects 107 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 7 games), Corey Kiner 22 (3.2 a game over 7 games). For Week 10 the call starts Derrick Henry over Corey Kiner, 14.8 to 13.0 projected PPR points.

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