Why use dependency injection for Request object vs request() helper in Laravel?

Is there any benefit to injecting the Request object into your controller method like this:

use Request;

class WidgetController
{
  public function create(Request $request)
  {
    $name = $request->input('name');
  }
}

Versus eliminating the use statement and object injection and simply using the helper:

class WidgetController
{
  public function create()
  {
    $name = request('name');
  }
}

via Chebli Mohamed