Should I start Brenton Strange or Dalton Schultz 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 Dalton Schultz, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Brenton Strange's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 21st highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Dalton Schultz is 2.0 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.

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

This season so far

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 7, Dalton Schultz has been on the field for 58 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 14 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 43 targets have averaged 5.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against JAX he caught 4 of 6 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYG he caught 5 of 6 targets for 45 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 Dalton Schultz played 17 games and scored 177.7 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE10.

He caught 82 of 106 targets for 777 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.2 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dalton Schultz was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Dalton Schultz scored 10.5 PPR points a game and Brenton Strange 9.8, 0.6 a game between them.

Brenton Strange finished TE23 that year and Dalton Schultz TE10.

Dalton Schultz had 46 more targets than Brenton Strange, 106 to 60.

Dalton Schultz had 237 more receiving yards than Brenton Strange, 777 to 540.

This season Brenton Strange holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 58 percent.

This season Dalton Schultz holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 18 percent.

Byes and availability

Brenton Strange is off in Week 7 and Dalton Schultz in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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