TreVeyon Henderson gives Patriots juice to the offense and can be Drake Maye's best friend | NFL Draft Live (2025)

Yahoo Sports’ ‘Draft Live’ crew reacts to the New England Patriots selecting Ohio State RB TreVeyon Henderson in the second round of the draft.

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Weapon Travin Henderson.

So we've now seen you mentioned it was thunder and lightning.

Well, we saw one go and now we see the other go.

So the storm is brewing.

What do you think of the fantasy implications for Traveon Henderson?

Yeah, this is interesting because Ramanre Stevenson is a guy who, you know, is a name in fantasy.

He was the number one player I listed on my Veterans on Notice article that I put on the site this week because like he's the, he's a perfect just like.

Midline starting running back in the NFL, like you can play, you can start him.

That's fine.

But in a class like this where there's these really quality players here available on day two, you have a new head coach in Mike Vrabel who did not give him Andre Stevenson that contract.

Like he was in danger of having this exact same thing happen, come in here and it's a, it's a guy who can take passing down duties from him.

That's problematic for Stevenson.

So definitely somebody that, I mean, Dynasty, you got Ramanre Stevenson, you're, you're kind of banged on this one and, and from a redraft fantasy perspective for Henderson.

You know, I think the passing game ability is gonna be key for him.

Like if he can really develop and be a receiving weapon, like he could end up being a huge value for Drake May because we're talking about these offensive line issues like get the ball out quick to that running back, catch a lot of passes, that's gonna score you some fantasy points.

He, he, he can hit home runs and he can pass protect and, uh, captain type.

Uh, coaches love him type, you know, does all the details.

So now the Patriots have gone.

Will Campbell, Henderson kind of leaders rebuilding everything again also Ohio State, yeah, right, yeah, he's gonna.

Oh my God, a running back that can pass protect from Ohio State.

Oh yeah, give me that guy.

But I I'm glad you brought up Stevenson, Matt, because the Henderson.

Had to go to a spot with a guy that can eat some innings.

He had to like he, he can't take a hard, heavy load every week in, week out.

Maybe some weeks he can, but he's not a 2025 touch guy.

He's a guy that pass protects.

He gets some touches.

You're not gonna give him short yard stuff in between the tackles.

That's one thing that's kind of iffy on, but Duke can hit home runs.

You can trust him in pass protection day one.

Pairs well with Stevenson pretty well.

You can move on from Stevenson next year, you know, but I like this.

I like this.

There's a little juice in the back.

I'm laughing because doesn't this this feel a little bit more of like what's old is new again in New England, you know, Josh McDaniel's back as the offensive coordinator.

They're getting like a passing down space back to go with the banger, you know, very like Shane Vin James White kind of coded here.

Um, it does, it does if somebody had Shane Verin on their bingo card today for to be a name pulled out.

That's well done.

Uh, there, yeah, I was gonna say we're gonna do the dregs of the running back position over the years because my comparison for Henderson's been Robert Smith, the running back for the Vikings.

Yeah, so that was just like, well, if I did a throwback name, you just said, yeah, how about, how about I wanna, I want that was for him.

I was trying to pop fits.

Uh, Roger Roger knows says in the YouTube comments running back run gonna be interesting today.

It is.