Brenton Strange or Patrick Mahomes: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brenton Strange: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Patrick Mahomes: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 37th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Brenton Strange at 8.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 124 players the market prices.

The market has Patrick Mahomes at 17.3 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 10 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Patrick Mahomes's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

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 4, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 142 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 142 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.

In Week 2 against IND he completed 32 of 47 passes for 382 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 17 yards.

In Week 3 against MIA he completed 20 of 24 passes for 246 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

In Week 4 against LV he completed 15 of 30 passes for 225 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

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 Patrick Mahomes played 14 games and scored 296.7 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing QB11.

He threw for 3587 yards on 502 attempts with 22 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 422 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 35.9 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Patrick Mahomes was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Patrick Mahomes scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Brenton Strange 9.8, 11.4 a game between them.

Brenton Strange finished TE23 and Patrick Mahomes QB11, which are two different ladders.

Brenton Strange is a tight end and Patrick Mahomes a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Patrick Mahomes is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Brenton Strange.

What would change the answer

Patrick Mahomes is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.