Michael Pittman Jr. or Brenton Strange: 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 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on either of them, 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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WR49 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs rec yds line 5-12
- Overall rank
- 124
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 15
TE17 · JAX · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market price
- 8.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 125
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size289 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 Michael Pittman Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Brenton Strange: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 125th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The market has Michael Pittman Jr. at 7.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 2 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No season market is posted for Brenton Strange, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Michael Pittman Jr. has been on the field for 78 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.
His 12 targets have averaged 9.4 air yards.
In Week 1 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 58 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against CIN he caught 2 of 5 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CLE he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Michael Pittman Jr. in the last completed season.
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.
Side by side
Michael Pittman Jr. is a wide receiver 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
Michael Pittman Jr. is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Brenton Strange.
Michael Pittman Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
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