Should I start Drake Maye or Derrick Henry in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Derrick Henry, and the board ranks him 49th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Drake Maye's market-based projection is 19.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Derrick Henry is 6.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 10 market sources. 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 6

Through Week 6, Drake Maye has been on the field for 97 percent of NE snaps, dropped back 214 times and thrown 9.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 214 dropbacks and scrambled 20 times.

In Week 4 against BUF he completed 22 of 37 passes for 269 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 56 yards.

In Week 5 against LV he completed 26 of 34 passes for 374 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 29 yards.

In Week 6 against NYJ he completed 18 of 32 passes for 235 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 25 yards.

Through Week 6, Derrick Henry has been on the field for 58 percent of BAL snaps, taken 73 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 53 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 15 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 3.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 6 against CLE he carried 17 times for 58 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Drake Maye played 17 games and scored 360.0 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing QB2.

He threw for 4394 yards on 492 attempts with 31 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 450 yards and 4 touchdowns.

That came to 28.9 attempts a game at 8.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 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 Drake Maye scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Derrick Henry 16.4, 4.7 a game between them.

Drake Maye finished QB2 and Derrick Henry RB8, which are two different ladders.

Drake Maye is a quarterback 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

Drake Maye is off in Week 11 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.