Should I start Jared Goff or Brenton Strange in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Jared Goff's market-based projection is 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

Brenton Strange's market-based projection is 9.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 77th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jared Goff, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brenton Strange, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Jared Goff has been on the field for 99 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 298 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 49 of 298 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 7 against GB he completed 22 of 32 passes for 303 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

In Week 8 against MIN he completed 18 of 25 passes for 176 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

In Week 9 against MIA he completed 17 of 25 passes for 170 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 7 yards.

Through Week 9, Brenton Strange has been on the field for 76 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 0 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.

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.

In Week 9 against BAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jared Goff played 17 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 17.9 a game, finishing QB9.

He threw for 4564 yards on 578 attempts with 34 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 45 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 34.0 attempts a game at 7.9 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.

Jared Goff was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jared Goff scored 17.9 PPR points a game and Brenton Strange 9.8, 8.1 a game between them.

Jared Goff finished QB9 and Brenton Strange TE23, which are two different ladders.

Jared Goff 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

Jared Goff is off in Week 6 and Brenton Strange in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.4 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.