Should I start Brenton Strange or Bo Nix in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brenton Strange, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bo Nix, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Brenton Strange is 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Bo Nix is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Brenton Strange's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Brenton Strange has been on the field for 79 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 33 targets have averaged 7.7 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against HOU he caught 5 of 7 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 234 times and thrown 5.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 234 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 5 against LAC he completed 16 of 27 passes for 123 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 10 yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he completed 17 of 27 passes for 107 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 3 yards.

In Week 7 against ARI he completed 15 of 29 passes for 222 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 75 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.

He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bo Nix was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Brenton Strange 9.8, 8.7 a game between them.

Brenton Strange finished TE23 and Bo Nix QB7, which are two different ladders.

Brenton Strange is a tight end and Bo Nix a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Brenton Strange is off in Week 7 and Bo Nix in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.