Brock Bowers or Brenton Strange: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Brock Bowers's market-based projection is 18.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Brenton Strange's market-based projection is 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Bowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 14th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 32.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brenton Strange: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 78 percent of LV snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 9.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against NO he caught 10 of 13 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 6 of 11 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NE he caught 8 of 10 targets for 110 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 Brock Bowers played 12 games and scored 176.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE11.

He caught 64 of 86 targets for 680 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 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.

Both were available for 12 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Brenton Strange 9.8, 4.8 a game between them.

Brock Bowers finished TE11 that year and Brenton Strange TE23.

Brock Bowers had 26 more targets than Brenton Strange, 86 to 60.

Brock Bowers had 140 more receiving yards than Brenton Strange, 680 to 540.

This season Brenton Strange holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 78 percent.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger target share, 30 percent against 19 percent.

Byes and availability

Brock Bowers is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Brenton Strange.

What would change the answer

9.7 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.