Brenton Strange or Darren Waller: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brenton Strange: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Darren Waller at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Brenton Strange at 8.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 109th highest figure of the 217 players the market prices.

No season market is posted for Darren Waller, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Brenton Strange has been on the field for 79 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 7.8 air yards.

In Week 2 against DEN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 4, Darren Waller has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 3 against CLE he caught 5 of 8 targets for 51 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 3 of 6 targets for 36 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 Darren Waller played 9 games and scored 88.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing TE33.

He caught 24 of 34 targets for 283 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 45 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Brenton Strange was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Darren Waller scored 9.9 PPR points a game and Brenton Strange 9.8, 0.0 a game between them.

Brenton Strange finished TE23 that year and Darren Waller TE33.

Brenton Strange had 26 more targets than Darren Waller, 60 to 34.

Brenton Strange had 257 more receiving yards than Darren Waller, 540 to 283.

This season Brenton Strange holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 46 percent.

This season Brenton Strange holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 13 percent.

What would change the answer

Darren Waller has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.