Should I start Hunter Henry or Nate Boerkircher in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Hunter Henry, and the board ranks him 194th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Nate Boerkircher, and the board ranks him 197th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

Nate Boerkircher's market-based projection is 2.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 150th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based 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, 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.

Through Week 8, Nate Boerkircher has been on the field for 48 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against HOU he caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against IND he caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

Nate Boerkircher is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Hunter Henry holds the bigger snap share, 66 percent against 48 percent.

This season Hunter Henry holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Hunter Henry is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Nate Boerkircher.

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.