​TreVeyon Henderson Could Be a League Winner, a Complete Bust, or Something In BetweenTreVeyon Henderson entered the league as one of the most exciting rookie running backs in the 2025 class, flashing exactly the explosiveness that made him a second-round pick. The problem is that his box score and his actual opportunity told two very different stories.Rhamondre Stevenson is still in town, still trusted, and still standing directly between Henderson and a real workload. Should fantasy football managers buy the talent and draft Henderson in 2026?Should You Draft Patriots RB TreVeyon Henderson in Fantasy Football?Let me come clean about something: I was all in on Henderson last year, arguably to a fault. Even when his price steamed up draft boards by two full rounds for no discernible reason, I stayed interested. Nothing about his talent or his circumstances had actually changed. He simply went from a five-six turn pick to a three-four turn pick.As a general rule, when a player’s price increases due to no change in circumstances, we should, at the very least, ask questions. That player won’t become a fade 100% of the time. If you think a player is worth a fourth-round pick and his price skyrockets from Round 9 to Round 6, he’s still worth it, even if he’s not as good of a pick. But that wasn’t the case with Henderson.To be clear, the talent has never been the issue. Henderson is a genuinely explosive player who rushed for 911 yards and 9 touchdowns on 5.1 yards per carry as a rookie. He set a Patriots record with 4 rushing touchdowns of 50-plus yards. That is not a fluky stat line. Only a handful of players in NFL history have ripped off that many long scores in a single season, let alone as a rookie.The problem was the opportunity. Henderson spent the first half of his rookie year on the wrong side of a timeshare. The backfield did not truly crack open until both Stevenson and Terrell Jennings got hurt. A Round 2 rookie should not have needed someone named Terrell Jennings to get hurt to accomplish anything.Nevertheless, once Henderson finally got his chance, he took it, piling up 243 total yards and 5 touchdowns across Weeks 10 and 11. Surely the genie was out of the proverbial bottle, right? Stevenson fended off the rookie as long as he could, but it’s over. It’s Henderson’s job now. Of course, that’s not what happened.Stevenson came back. Henderson had one week as the lead back while Stevenson re-acclimated to playing football. Then, a week later, Henderson was banished into a backup role, and it stayed that way the rest of the season. That is the part fantasy managers cannot gloss over. As exciting as Henderson may be, the Patriots saw what he was capable of and still made a conscious decision to take the ball out of his hands as much as possible.Henderson’s Redraft Fantasy Football ValueThe playoffs told the whole story, and it was ugly. New England made a run all the way to the Super Bowl, and Henderson was an afterthought