Should I start Kaelon Black or Hunter Henry in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kaelon Black, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Hunter Henry, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kaelon Black is 7.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 10 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 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 61st highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Kaelon Black has been on the field for 29 percent of SF snaps, taken 30 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 3 of its 28 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against WAS he carried 8 times for 34 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ATL he carried 12 times for 63 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for -4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against LV he carried 11 times for 70 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Hunter Henry has been on the field for 64 percent of NE snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

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.

In Week 9 against GB he caught 3 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Kaelon Black is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

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.

Side by side

Kaelon Black 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

Kaelon Black is off in Week 8 and Hunter Henry in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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