Should I start Elic Ayomanor or Derrick Henry in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Elic Ayomanor, and the board ranks him 77th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Derrick Henry, and the board ranks him 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Elic Ayomanor's market-based projection is 5.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 4 market sources. That is the 92nd highest figure of the 212 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 so far

Through Week 8, Elic Ayomanor has been on the field for 65 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 1 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 10.5 air yards.

In Week 6 against IND he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CLE he caught 3 of 7 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CIN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 34 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 Elic Ayomanor played 16 games and scored 116.5 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing WR55.

He caught 41 of 89 targets for 515 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 5.6 targets a game, a 46 percent catch rate and 12.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 79 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 Elic Ayomanor 7.3, 9.2 a game between them.

Elic Ayomanor finished WR55 and Derrick Henry RB8, which are two different ladders.

Elic Ayomanor is a wide receiver 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

Elic Ayomanor is off in Week 9 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.