Tee Higgins or TreVeyon Henderson: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tee Higgins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on TreVeyon Henderson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Tee Higgins at 4.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market has TreVeyon Henderson at 4.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 14 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Tee Higgins's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 79 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 13.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against HOU he caught 5 of 10 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PIT he caught 6 of 7 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 11 of 16 targets for 157 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, TreVeyon Henderson has been on the field for 43 percent of NE snaps, taken 45 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 8 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against PIT he carried 16 times for 76 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against JAX he carried 8 times for 23 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.

He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6.5 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 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.

TreVeyon Henderson was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tee Higgins scored 14.1 PPR points a game and TreVeyon Henderson 12.1, 2.0 a game between them.

Tee Higgins finished WR15 and TreVeyon Henderson RB21, which are two different ladders.

Tee Higgins 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

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

Tee Higgins is listed as questionable on the injury report.