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Should I start Derrick Henry or Jeremiyah Love in Week 9?

Updated Nov 3, 4:36 AM ET.

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  • : Jeremiyah Love: Questionable to Out (Ankle) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Jeremiyah Love: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Cardinals rookie RB Jeremiyah Love (ankle) set to return (ESPN)

Derrick Henry and Jeremiyah Love are too close to call on usage: 55 percent of the snaps and 69 percent of the carries against 54 percent of the snaps and 66 percent of the carries over their last 3 games. 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 Jeremiyah Love for Derrick Henry?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Derrick Henry projects 130 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (16.3 a game over 8 games), Jeremiyah Love 84 (10.5 a game over 8 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.

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

Derrick Henry

RB7 · BAL · bye 13

2026 vs carries line 4-4

Market-based projection
13.8 pts a game

Jeremiyah Love

RB9 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs carries line 3-3

Market-based projection
10.9 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
33

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The gap

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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 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremiyah Love, and the board ranks him 33rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 10; 2QB: ADP 29.

The market-based projections

Derrick Henry's market-based projection is 13.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 16th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Jeremiyah Love, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Derrick Henry has been on the field for 57 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.

Through Week 8, Jeremiyah Love has been on the field for 50 percent of ARI snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 64 third down targets, had 3 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 49 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYG he carried 14 times for 63 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DET he carried 12 times for 22 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DAL he carried 9 times for 23 yards and did not score.

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.

Jeremiyah Love is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Derrick Henry holds the bigger snap share, 57 percent against 50 percent.

This season Derrick Henry holds the bigger share of the carries, 71 percent against 52 percent.

Byes and availability

Derrick Henry is off in Week 13 and Jeremiyah Love in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jeremiyah Love is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Jeremiyah Love has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Jeremiyah Love for Derrick Henry?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Derrick Henry projects 130 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (16.3 a game over 8 games), Jeremiyah Love 84 (10.5 a game over 8 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.

  • Should I drop Derrick Henry for Jeremiyah Love?

    No. Keep Derrick Henry: he projects 130 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (16.3 a game over 8 games), Jeremiyah Love 84 (10.5 a game over 8 games). Jeremiyah Love is listed out.

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