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Should I start Jeremy McNichols or Hunter Henry in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 11:26 PM ET.

Start Hunter Henry: 72 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jeremy McNichols's 18 percent of the snaps and 31 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.

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

RB29 · WAS · bye unlisted

2025 vs anytime td line 1-16

Overall rank
72

TE9 · NE · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 2-5

Market-based projection
9.9 pts a game

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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 Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Hunter Henry, and the board ranks him 73rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jeremy McNichols is 6.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 8 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.

Hunter Henry's market-based projection is 9.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 18 percent of WAS snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Hunter Henry has been on the field for 73 percent of NE snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against LV he caught 3 of 4 targets for 44 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.

He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.

That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 33 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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Hunter Henry scored 10.5 PPR points a game and Jeremy McNichols 4.3, 6.2 a game between them.

Jeremy McNichols finished RB58 and Hunter Henry TE9, which are two different ladders.

Jeremy McNichols is a running back and Hunter Henry a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Hunter Henry is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Jeremy McNichols.

What would change the answer

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

Both players in full

Week 8 on the board

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