RB TreVeyon Henderson, NE (11 Viewers)

[Ray Barboni]

I benched AJ Brown for Henderson.

According to the “experts,” Brown had the #1 most difficult matchup, and has been a dud vs pushovers. No reason to think this week would be any better. Figured the Pats would be up big and this would be the perfect game to give him opportunities, including garbage time.

Nope. Despite playing this stupid game for 30 years, I’m still an idiot.

Yea ... this ones on you brother. I started Henderson today, but only over the likes of Travis Hunter (oof) and Tre Tucker. You should know better than that though .. I don't care how "bad" AJ Brown has been, hes still been better than Henderson. Plus the ceiling/floor differential?

Next week is a new week, thankfully

Definitely on me. I was tempted by the notion of rolling the dice on the unknown vs what seemed to be a guaranteed dud. Would it have been shocking if AJ Brown went 4/37/0 in a tough matchup and Henderson went 8/32/1 in an ideal matchup?

No. But, I'd still 1000% take my chances on a dud game from AJ over a garbage time hope on Henderson.

 

[Uncle Leo]

I benched AJ Brown for Henderson.

According to the “experts,” Brown had the #1 most difficult matchup, and has been a dud vs pushovers. No reason to think this week would be any better. Figured the Pats would be up big and this would be the perfect game to give him opportunities, including garbage time.

Nope. Despite playing this stupid game for 30 years, I’m still an idiot.

Yea ... this ones on you brother. I started Henderson today, but only over the likes of Travis Hunter (oof) and Tre Tucker. You should know better than that though .. I don't care how "bad" AJ Brown has been, hes still been better than Henderson. Plus the ceiling/floor differential?

Next week is a new week, thankfully

I agree. I don’t see how anyone could start Henderson over Brown, or anyone similar, given his minuscule usage.

It was a jackass decision, plain and simple. Got tired of AJ boning me and went with a gut feeling based on nothing but matchups.

Been there and done that…picked up Geno and started him due to match up and expert opinions. Yeah, I lost that week due to this move.

 

[ponchsox]

I think he will hit a ton of waiver wires this week in redraft with all of the teams on bye.

 

[Ray Barboni]

I think he will hit a ton of waiver wires this week in redraft with all of the teams on bye.

Probably. Not me though. Thankfully, I can afford to hold him (redraft).

It’s really bad right now. But there’s still a lot of football ahead, and he’s supposedly a very explosive RB.

You would’ve liked to have seen something by now though …

 

[ponchsox]

I think he will hit a ton of waiver wires this week in redraft with all of the teams on bye.

Probably. Not me though. Thankfully, I can afford to hold him (redraft).

It’s really bad right now. But there’s still a lot of football ahead, and he’s supposedly a very explosive RB.

You would’ve liked to have seen something by now though …

I’m holding as well, but yeah it’s looking very bleak

 

[Uncle Leo]

I think he will hit a ton of waiver wires this week in redraft with all of the teams on bye.

Probably. Not me though. Thankfully, I can afford to hold him (redraft).

It’s really bad right now. But there’s still a lot of football ahead, and he’s supposedly a very explosive RB.

You would’ve liked to have seen something by now though …

Same here. Will continue to hold. It’s to a point I don’t want someone else to pick him then he blows up. Don’t need that salt on my wounds.

 

[satch]

I benched AJ Brown for Henderson.

According to the “experts,” Brown had the #1 most difficult matchup, and has been a dud vs pushovers. No reason to think this week would be any better. Figured the Pats would be up big and this would be the perfect game to give him opportunities, including garbage time.

Nope. Despite playing this stupid game for 30 years, I’m still an idiot.

Yea ... this ones on you brother. I started Henderson today, but only over the likes of Travis Hunter (oof) and Tre Tucker. You should know better than that though .. I don't care how "bad" AJ Brown has been, hes still been better than Henderson. Plus the ceiling/floor differential?

Next week is a new week, thankfully

I agree. I don’t see how anyone could start Henderson over Brown, or anyone similar, given his minuscule usage.

Like I said, in hindsight, it was a jackass move. Then again, if Brown had another 4/37/0 game in a tough matchup, and Henderson went 8/32/1 in a great matchup, the decision would’ve seemed sensible. And as we all know, that could’ve very well happened. But it didn’t, so for this week, I’m a jackass. Next week a similar decision will seem prescient.

 

[Ray Barboni]

I benched AJ Brown for Henderson.

According to the “experts,” Brown had the #1 most difficult matchup, and has been a dud vs pushovers. No reason to think this week would be any better. Figured the Pats would be up big and this would be the perfect game to give him opportunities, including garbage time.

Nope. Despite playing this stupid game for 30 years, I’m still an idiot.

Yea ... this ones on you brother. I started Henderson today, but only over the likes of Travis Hunter (oof) and Tre Tucker. You should know better than that though .. I don't care how "bad" AJ Brown has been, hes still been better than Henderson. Plus the ceiling/floor differential?

Next week is a new week, thankfully

I agree. I don’t see how anyone could start Henderson over Brown, or anyone similar, given his minuscule usage.

Like I said, in hindsight, it was a jackass move. Then again, if Brown had another 4/37/0 game in a tough matchup, and Henderson went 8/32/1 in a great matchup, the decision would’ve seemed sensible. And as we all know, that could’ve very well happened. But it didn’t, so for this week, I’m a jackass. Next week a similar decision will seem prescient.

… I already told you that you’re not an idiot. Do I need to tell you you’re also not a jackass?

Live and learn. We are all dumb, most of the time.

 

[Chaka]

Okay, nothing can be done about it now so, what did we learn?

 

[Ray Barboni]

Okay, nothing can be done about it now so, what did we learn?

Rhamondre is still good

… oh and start AJ brown over Henderson?

 

[Houston turmOiler]

Okay, nothing can be done about it now so, what did we learn?

Nothing. Because in fantasy football, you will do what you should have done this week, but the decision will be wrong yet again.

 

[Smack Tripper]

Okay, nothing can be done about it now so, what did we learn?

what I'll take from this.. only real life first round guys have high round capital from a fantasy perspective. The players drafted day 2 and 3 can have value, can play themselves into position but they don't merit fantasy draft capital due to how their teams likely view them.

And I mean, coaching matters, that alarm was sounded preseason,

He was a deadly 3rd round pick, if you got him 5/6th your'e probably surviving

 

[ponchsox]

I benched AJ Brown for Henderson.

According to the “experts,” Brown had the #1 most difficult matchup, and has been a dud vs pushovers. No reason to think this week would be any better. Figured the Pats would be up big and this would be the perfect game to give him opportunities, including garbage time.

Nope. Despite playing this stupid game for 30 years, I’m still an idiot.

Yea ... this ones on you brother. I started Henderson today, but only over the likes of Travis Hunter (oof) and Tre Tucker. You should know better than that though .. I don't care how "bad" AJ Brown has been, hes still been better than Henderson. Plus the ceiling/floor differential?

Next week is a new week, thankfully

I agree. I don’t see how anyone could start Henderson over Brown, or anyone similar, given his minuscule usage.

Like I said, in hindsight, it was a jackass move. Then again, if Brown had another 4/37/0 game in a tough matchup, and Henderson went 8/32/1 in a great matchup, the decision would’ve seemed sensible. And as we all know, that could’ve very well happened. But it didn’t, so for this week, I’m a jackass. Next week a similar decision will seem prescient.

Hindsight is always 20/20. All we can do is set our lineups with the information that we have. Now we know that Henderson is a non-factor and we can’t use him until he proves us wrong.

 

[LawFitz]

Okay, nothing can be done about it now so, what did we learn?

For every rookie Saquads, there are ten rookie James Cooks (best case for small-play Trey).

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

This is the point in the season you would expect to see him trending up but he seems to be trending down. If gets dropped, I will stash him for a bit but this looks extremely bad for short term and long term value. If I took him in dynasty, I would be very skeptical about what I have now.

The only weird thing to me is the Gibson injury. That absolutely should have resulted in a bump in usage. And it was like, the opposite.

Also, I know no one wants to admit this, but Rhamondre Stevenson is a very solid football player when he’s not putting the ball on the ground.

 

[LawFitz]

Rhamondre Stevenson is a very solid football player when he’s not putting the ball on the ground.

Si. Or in other words, da.

 

[Faust]

Ian Hartitz
Not only did the Patriots completely turn the backfield over to Rhamondre Stevenson as the clear workhorse, but "Terrell Jennings" is getting garbage time touches over TreVeyon Henderson.

https://x.com/ihartitz/status/1979995943324803529?s=61

 

[JohnnyU]

Ian Hartitz
Not only did the Patriots completely turn the backfield over to Rhamondre Stevenson as the clear workhorse, but "Terrell Jennings" is getting garbage time touches over TreVeyon Henderson.

https://x.com/ihartitz/status/1979995943324803529?s=61

Are the Patriots admitting they shouldn't have drafted Henderson in the 2nd round (38th overall)? Because their actions speaks volume.

 

[Mr. Peterson]

I can’t decide if I want to buy low or stay away. Seems Vrabel doesn’t like him and Vrabel doesn’t seem to be the type to change his mind easily. And he’s going nowhere.

 

[thebear22]

I think the proliferation of fantasy content over the last couple years has led to people chasing rookies up the board a lot more than even 3 years ago. It’s easy to write articles about a rookie and with no priors of them in the NFL, writers have a blank slate to paint any narrative they want. Couple that with the abnormal anoint of breakouts last year (Bowers, Bucky, Daniels, BTJ) and rookies were being overdrafted this year.

 

[Uncle Leo]

I think the proliferation of fantasy content over the last couple years has led to people chasing rookies up the board a lot more than even 3 years ago. It’s easy to write articles about a rookie and with no priors of them in the NFL, writers have a blank slate to paint any narrative they want. Couple that with the abnormal anoint of breakouts last year (Bowers, Bucky, Daniels, BTJ) and rookies were being overdrafted this year.

This and we saw a potential Bucky during the preseason. This kid was electric and the fact he was a high second round pick. That and we also saw what he did at Ohio State. It’s ok to take a L sometimes.

 

[Faust]

Underdog NFL
HC Vrabel on TreVeyon Henderson only playing 9 snaps in Week 7, via @mikekadlick:

"It's just kind of how it played out. Thought Rhamondre was running well. Had some good protections. TreVeyon's gonna be a large part of what we do ... that's just kind of where it was this week."

https://x.com/underdognfl/status/1980298466820792627?s=61