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Hunter Henry
Hunter Henry is a tight end for the New England Patriots. Depth chart: TE1.
Scouting report
Hunter Henry: the full picture
Hunter Henry at a glance
Hunter Henry is a 31-year-old tight end for the New England Patriots, listed at 6'5" and 249 pounds. The Los Angeles Chargers drafted Henry 35th overall in the second round in 2016, out of Arkansas, and 2026 is Henry's 11th NFL season.
2026 projection
The Gridiron Value season model projects Henry for 145.4 PPR points in 2026, which ranks TE13 at the position and works out to 9.5 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 2 games of 2026, Henry has scored 12.6 PPR points, or 6.3 per game. That is 8.7% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Henry would finish with about 107 points, behind the 145.4 projected. It is a small sample, so expect that pace to settle. The best week so far is 7.0 points in Week 2 against PIT, the TE22 finish that week. Henry has cleared the 7-point mark we count as a usable TE start in 1 of 2 games, a 50% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 33 qualified tight ends of 2026, Henry ranks in the 62nd percentile in yards per target, the 53rd percentile in receiving yards and the 53rd percentile in target share. The softest mark is the 23rd percentile in receiving TDs.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Henry has finished as TE13 in 2020, TE10 in 2021, TE22 in 2022, TE19 in 2023, TE12 in 2024 and TE9 in 2025. Four of those 9 seasons ended inside the top twelve. The high-water mark is 178.8 PPR points in 2025. Across 131 regular-season games on record, the totals read 461 receptions, 5,361 receiving yards and 47 receiving touchdowns.
Hunter Henry by the numbers
Henry has been the highest-scoring tight end of the week 4 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 19 times and finished in the top twelve 55 times. The career high is 30.0 PPR points, set in Week 6 of 2019 against PIT, the top TE score of that week. The game log also shows 1 game of 30 or more PPR points and 3 100-yard receiving games. In all, Henry has reached 20 points in 5 games, 4% of career appearances.
Contract
Henry is playing on a two-year, $16 million contract signed with the New England Patriots in 2026, an average of $8 million per year with $14.5 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2027 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Henry carries a GV stock price of 3,695, which ranks 174th overall and TE33 among tight ends out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Henry 129th overall. Value has moved down 1.1 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are David Njoku, Tucker Kraft and Michael Mayer. See where Henry sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 145.4
- PPR / game
- 9.5
Hunter Henry fantasy outlook
Hunter Henry enters the 2026 season with NE and ranks TE13 and #128 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 145.4 PPR points across 15.3 games, or 9.5 points per game, placing the expected outcome in a strong starter tier. The preseason depth chart lists Hunter Henry as TE1, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Hunter Henry produced 178.8 PPR points in 17 games (10.5 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 61%, with a 77% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.
Week 2 projection
Hunter Henry is projected for 10.8 PPR points at home against PIT in week 2, with a likely range of 0.0 to 25.3.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is down 1.1 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 43.6
- Dynasty
- 35.8
- Superflex redraft
- 56.2
- Superflex dynasty
- 50.0
- TE premium dynasty
- 35.2
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | NE | 2 | 8 | 6 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.6 |
| 2025 | NE | 17 | 87 | 60 | 768 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 178.8 |
| 2024 | NE | 16 | 97 | 66 | 674 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 145.4 |
| 2023 | NE | 13 | 61 | 42 | 419 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 119.9 |
| 2022 | NE | 16 | 59 | 41 | 509 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 103.9 |
| 2021 | NE | 16 | 75 | 50 | 603 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 164.3 |
| 2020 | LAC | 14 | 93 | 60 | 613 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 145.3 |
| 2019 | LAC | 12 | 76 | 55 | 652 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 150.2 |
| 2017 | LAC | 12 | 62 | 45 | 579 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 126.9 |
| 2016 | LAC | 13 | 53 | 36 | 478 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 129.8 |
Tight ends ranked near Hunter Henry
- Mark Andrews TE10 · 154.3 PPR
- Travis Kelce TE11 · 151.8 PPR
- Dallas Goedert TE12 · 149.5 PPR
- Harold Fannin Jr. TE14 · 145.0 PPR
- Dalton Kincaid TE15 · 137.0 PPR
- AJ Barner TE16 · 131.2 PPR
New England Patriots fantasy players
- Drake Maye QB · 367.3 PPR
- Rhamondre Stevenson RB · 196.2 PPR
- Romeo Doubs WR · 167.3 PPR
- TreVeyon Henderson RB · 149.5 PPR
- A.J. Brown WR · 120.3 PPR
- DeMario Douglas WR · 120.3 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-09-24.