Should I start Blake Corum or Brenton Strange in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 4:31 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Brenton Strange: 82 percent of the snaps and 24 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Blake Corum's 24 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Blake Corum

RB31 · LAR · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 1-4

Market-based projection: 9.5 pts a game

Brenton Strange

TE13 · JAX · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection: 8.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 93

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The gap

Board size329 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Blake Corum, and the board ranks him 92nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brenton Strange, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Blake Corum's market-based projection is 9.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 193 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Brenton Strange, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Blake Corum has been on the field for 27 percent of LAR snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he carried 6 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PHI he carried 5 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he carried 5 times for 19 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 53 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Brenton Strange has been on the field for 79 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against NE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CIN he caught 7 of 8 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 7 of 8 targets for 68 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Blake Corum played 17 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB40.

He carried 145 times for 746 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 14 targets for 36 more yards.

That came to 8-9 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Brenton Strange played 12 games and scored 118.0 PPR points, 9.8 a game, finishing TE23.

He caught 46 of 60 targets for 540 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 5.0 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Blake Corum was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brenton Strange scored 9.8 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 2.6 a game between them.

Blake Corum finished RB40 and Brenton Strange TE23, which are two different ladders.

Blake Corum is a running back and Brenton Strange a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Blake Corum is off in Week 11 and Brenton Strange in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Brenton Strange has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.