D'Andre Swift or Brenton Strange: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on D'Andre Swift: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 13.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brenton Strange: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has D'Andre Swift at 5.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 11 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Brenton Strange at 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 73rd highest figure of the 142 players the market prices.

D'Andre Swift's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 56 percent of CHI snaps, taken 44 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 10 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against PHI he carried 20 times for 84 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 15 times for 58 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he carried 9 times for 43 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 30 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 D'Andre Swift played 16 games and scored 228.6 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing RB15.

He carried 223 times for 1087 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 34 of 48 targets for 299 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 58 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.

D'Andre Swift was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 D'Andre Swift scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Brenton Strange 9.8, 4.5 a game between them.

D'Andre Swift finished RB15 and Brenton Strange TE23, which are two different ladders.

D'Andre Swift is a running back 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

D'Andre Swift is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Brenton Strange.

What would change the answer

D'Andre Swift is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.