Should I start TreVeyon Henderson or Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Omar Cooper Jr., and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

Omar Cooper Jr.'s market-based projection is 9.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 93rd highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based 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, 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.

Through Week 7, Omar Cooper Jr. has been on the field for 64 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 9 third down targets and had 1 of its 3 chances inside the five.

His 5 targets have averaged 10.2 air yards.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 5 of 5 targets for 115 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

Omar Cooper Jr. is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

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

Byes and availability

TreVeyon Henderson is off in Week 11 and Omar Cooper Jr. in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.