Should I start Kenny Gainwell or Hunter Henry in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenny Gainwell, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Hunter Henry, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kenny Gainwell is 6.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 40 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 207 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Kenny Gainwell has been on the field for 35 percent of TB snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 2.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 4 times for 18 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against PIT he carried 2 times for 17 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CAR he carried 14 times for 88 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 Kenny Gainwell played 17 games and scored 222.3 PPR points, 13.1 a game, finishing RB16.

He carried 114 times for 537 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 73 of 85 targets for 486 more yards.

That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.7 yards a carry and 4.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 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 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and Hunter Henry 10.5, 2.6 a game between them.

Kenny Gainwell finished RB16 and Hunter Henry TE9, which are two different ladders.

Kenny Gainwell 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

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

Kenny Gainwell is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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