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Should I start TreVeyon Henderson or Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 11:16 PM ET.

Week 7 verdict

Start

RB · GB · at DET

Market projects
4.9
fantasy pts
DET D vs RB
18.7
8th fewest to RBs (2026)
Upside
High
85 of 100 at RB
Sit

RB · NE · at CHI

Market projects
4.7
fantasy pts
CHI D vs RB
17.0
4th fewest to RBs (2026)
Upside
Limited
14 of 100 at RB
Snap share
33%
Through Week 6
Target share
3%
Through Week 6
Start Strong or Henderson? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Pierre Strong Jr.: 49 percent of the snaps and 33 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against TreVeyon Henderson's 26 percent of the snaps and 26 percent of the carries. 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 TreVeyon Henderson for Pierre Strong Jr.?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Pierre Strong Jr. projects 63 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.3 a game over 10 games), TreVeyon Henderson 48 (4.8 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Pierre Strong Jr. over TreVeyon Henderson, 4.9 to 4.7 projected PPR points.

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

RB35 · NE · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Market-based projection
4.7 pts a game

RB40 · GB · bye 11

Overall rank
122

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The gap

  • Board size315 draftable players

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 TreVeyon Henderson, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Pierre Strong Jr., and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

TreVeyon Henderson's market-based projection is 4.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 133rd highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

The market has Pierre Strong Jr. at 4.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 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.

Pierre Strong Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, TreVeyon Henderson has been on the field for 33 percent of NE snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against BUF he carried 14 times for 42 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 6, Pierre Strong Jr. has been on the field for 49 percent of GB snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 30 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 5 times for 7 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 11 times for 28 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

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.

The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong Jr. in the last completed season.

Head to head

This season Pierre Strong Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 49 percent against 33 percent.

Their share of the carries this season is the same, 33 percent each.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

Pierre Strong Jr. 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 TreVeyon Henderson for Pierre Strong Jr.?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Pierre Strong Jr. projects 63 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.3 a game over 10 games), TreVeyon Henderson 48 (4.8 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Pierre Strong Jr. over TreVeyon Henderson, 4.9 to 4.7 projected PPR points.

  • Should I drop Pierre Strong Jr. for TreVeyon Henderson?

    No. Keep Pierre Strong Jr.: he projects 63 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.3 a game over 10 games), TreVeyon Henderson 48 (4.8 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Pierre Strong Jr. over TreVeyon Henderson, 4.9 to 4.7 projected PPR points.

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