Should I start Kirk Cousins or Hunter Henry in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 9:36 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Kirk Cousins: 95 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Hunter Henry's 68 percent of the snaps and 14 percent of the targets. 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 Hunter Henry for Kirk Cousins?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Kirk Cousins projects 145 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.5 a game over 10 games), Hunter Henry 96 (9.6 a game over 10 games).

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

Kirk Cousins

QB12 · LV · bye 13

2026 vs pass yds line 5-1

Overall rank: 87

Hunter Henry

TE12 · NE · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection: 8.8 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 Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Hunter Henry, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kirk Cousins is 16.7 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback'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 91st highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 98 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 221 times and thrown 8.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 40 of 221 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 4 against KC he completed 31 of 49 passes for 365 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 5 against NE he completed 19 of 28 passes for 243 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 6 against BUF he completed 23 of 41 passes for 313 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

Through Week 6, Hunter Henry has been on the field for 73 percent of NE snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 5 of 5 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kirk Cousins played 10 games and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.

He threw for 1721 yards on 269 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 46 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 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kirk Cousins scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Hunter Henry 10.5, 0.3 a game between them.

Kirk Cousins finished QB35 and Hunter Henry TE9, which are two different ladders.

Kirk Cousins is a quarterback 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

Kirk Cousins is off in Week 13 and Hunter Henry in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Hunter Henry for Kirk Cousins?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Kirk Cousins projects 145 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.5 a game over 10 games), Hunter Henry 96 (9.6 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Kirk Cousins for Hunter Henry?
No. Keep Kirk Cousins: he projects 145 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.5 a game over 10 games), Hunter Henry 96 (9.6 a game over 10 games).