Should I start Evan Engram or Hunter Henry in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Evan Engram, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Hunter Henry, and the board ranks him 195th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Evan Engram's market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 115th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Hunter Henry is 2.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Evan Engram has been on the field for 54 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ARI he caught 1 of 3 targets for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against KC he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Hunter Henry has been on the field for 66 percent of NE snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 4 of 5 targets for 48 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against CHI he caught 7 of 7 targets for 71 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIA he caught 3 of 3 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Evan Engram played 16 games and scored 102.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing TE29.

He caught 50 of 76 targets for 461 yards and 1 touchdown, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 42 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Hunter Henry played 17 games and scored 178.8 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE9.

He caught 60 of 87 targets for 768 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 22 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 12.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Hunter Henry was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Hunter Henry scored 10.5 PPR points a game and Evan Engram 6.4, 4.1 a game between them.

Evan Engram finished TE29 that year and Hunter Henry TE9.

Hunter Henry had 11 more targets than Evan Engram, 87 to 76.

Hunter Henry had 307 more receiving yards than Evan Engram, 768 to 461.

This season Hunter Henry holds the bigger snap share, 66 percent against 54 percent.

This season Hunter Henry holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 11 percent.

Byes and availability

Evan Engram is off in Week 10 and Hunter Henry in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Hunter Henry is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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