Should I start Brenton Strange or Chig Okonkwo in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brenton Strange, and the board ranks him 37th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chig Okonkwo, and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Brenton Strange's market-based projection is 8.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Chig Okonkwo is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Brenton Strange has been on the field for 79 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 35 targets have averaged 7.9 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against IND he caught 2 of 2 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Chig Okonkwo has been on the field for 65 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 7.9 air yards.

In Week 5 against NYG he caught 4 of 6 targets for 60 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 7 of 7 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he caught 2 of 4 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

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 Chig Okonkwo played 17 games and scored 124.0 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing TE21.

He caught 56 of 79 targets for 560 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chig Okonkwo was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Brenton Strange scored 9.8 PPR points a game and Chig Okonkwo 7.3, 2.5 a game between them.

Brenton Strange finished TE23 that year and Chig Okonkwo TE21.

Chig Okonkwo had 19 more targets than Brenton Strange, 79 to 60.

Chig Okonkwo had 20 more receiving yards than Brenton Strange, 560 to 540.

This season Brenton Strange holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 65 percent.

This season Brenton Strange holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 16 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

Chig Okonkwo has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.