Should I start Brenton Strange or Juwan Johnson 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 Juwan Johnson, and the board ranks him 122nd 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 Juwan Johnson is 2.1 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.

Juwan Johnson'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, Juwan Johnson has been on the field for 66 percent of NO snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 2 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 4.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 4 of 5 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PIT he caught 1 of 3 targets for 7 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 Juwan Johnson played 17 games and scored 179.9 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing TE8.

He caught 77 of 102 targets for 889 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 12 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Juwan Johnson was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Juwan Johnson scored 10.6 PPR points a game and Brenton Strange 9.8, 0.7 a game between them.

Brenton Strange finished TE23 that year and Juwan Johnson TE8.

Juwan Johnson had 42 more targets than Brenton Strange, 102 to 60.

Juwan Johnson had 349 more receiving yards than Brenton Strange, 889 to 540.

This season Brenton Strange holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 66 percent.

This season Brenton Strange holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

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