Dak Prescott or Brenton Strange: who should I start in Week 6?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Dak Prescott at 18.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 139 players the market prices.

The player markets price Brenton Strange at 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 65th highest figure of the 139 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dak Prescott: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brenton Strange: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Dak Prescott has been on the field for 100 percent of DAL snaps, dropped back 209 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 30 of 209 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.

In Week 3 against BAL he completed 25 of 40 passes for 276 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 19 yards.

In Week 4 against HOU he completed 32 of 45 passes for 335 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 7 yards.

In Week 5 against TB he completed 24 of 42 passes for 316 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions.

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 Dak Prescott played 17 games and scored 323.8 PPR points, 19.0 a game, finishing QB6.

He threw for 4552 yards on 600 attempts with 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 35.3 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 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.

Dak Prescott was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Dak Prescott scored 19.0 PPR points a game and Brenton Strange 9.8, 9.2 a game between them.

Dak Prescott finished QB6 and Brenton Strange TE23, which are two different ladders.

Dak Prescott is a quarterback 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

Dak Prescott is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Brenton Strange.

What would change the answer

9.9 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 price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.