Should I start Noah Gray or Hunter Henry in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Noah Gray, and the board ranks him 170th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Hunter Henry, and the board ranks him 183rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Noah Gray's market-based projection is 3.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 139th highest figure of the 226 players with a market-based projection.

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.

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, Noah Gray has been on the field for 58 percent of KC snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 1 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 6.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 3 of 3 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against SEA he caught 3 of 3 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DEN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Noah Gray played 16 games and scored 38.8 PPR points, 2.4 a game, finishing TE59.

He caught 21 of 37 targets for 178 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 2.3 targets a game, a 57 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 52 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 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Hunter Henry scored 10.5 PPR points a game and Noah Gray 2.4, 8.1 a game between them.

Noah Gray finished TE59 that year and Hunter Henry TE9.

Hunter Henry had 50 more targets than Noah Gray, 87 to 37.

Hunter Henry had 590 more receiving yards than Noah Gray, 768 to 178.

This season Hunter Henry holds the bigger snap share, 66 percent against 58 percent.

This season Hunter Henry holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 7 percent.

Byes and availability

Hunter Henry is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Noah Gray.

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.