Should I start Malik Washington or TreVeyon Henderson in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Washington, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on TreVeyon Henderson, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Malik Washington's market-based projection is 10.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 82nd highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for TreVeyon Henderson is 6.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Malik Washington has been on the field for 84 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 11.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 2 times for 3 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 1 time for 18 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 43 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYJ he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, TreVeyon Henderson has been on the field for 32 percent of NE snaps, taken 32 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against LV he carried 4 times for 22 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYJ he carried 7 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CHI he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Malik Washington played 17 games and scored 116.7 PPR points, 6.9 a game, finishing WR54.

He caught 46 of 65 targets for 317 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 6.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 TreVeyon Henderson played 17 games and scored 206.2 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing RB21.

He carried 180 times for 911 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 35 of 42 targets for 221 more yards.

That came to 10.6 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 TreVeyon Henderson scored 12.1 PPR points a game and Malik Washington 6.9, 5.3 a game between them.

Malik Washington finished WR54 and TreVeyon Henderson RB21, which are two different ladders.

Malik Washington is a wide receiver and TreVeyon Henderson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Malik Washington is off in Week 6 and TreVeyon Henderson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Malik Washington is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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