Brenton Strange or Kyle Pitts Sr.: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 12, 2026 at 6:16 PM ET
Week 5 verdict
Start Brenton Strange over Kyle Pitts Sr.
Wrong: 13.8 to 15.2
- Market projected
- 8.5
- pre-game
- Snap share
- 81%
- Week 5
- Target share
- 21%
- Week 5
- Scored
- 13.8
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 6.4
- pre-game
- Scored
- 15.2
- PPR pts
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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TE16 · JAX · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 8.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 122
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
TE28 · ATL · bye 11
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- Market price
- 6.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 155
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size291 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Brenton Strange: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kyle Pitts Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 155th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Brenton Strange, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Kyle Pitts Sr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 5
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.
Through Week 5, Kyle Pitts Sr. has been on the field for 53 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.
In Week 3 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against NO he caught 3 of 3 targets for 47 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against BAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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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 Kyle Pitts Sr. played 17 games and scored 210.8 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing TE2.
He caught 88 of 118 targets for 928 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 10.5 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kyle Pitts Sr. was available for 5 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. scored 12.4 PPR points a game and Brenton Strange 9.8, 2.6 a game between them.
Brenton Strange finished TE23 that year and Kyle Pitts Sr. TE2.
Kyle Pitts Sr. had 58 more targets than Brenton Strange, 118 to 60.
Kyle Pitts Sr. had 388 more receiving yards than Brenton Strange, 928 to 540.
This season Brenton Strange holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 53 percent.
This season Brenton Strange holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 12 percent.
Byes and availability
Kyle Pitts Sr. is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Brenton Strange.
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