Should I start Brenton Strange or T.J. Hockenson 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 T.J. Hockenson, and the board ranks him 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Brenton Strange's market-based projection is 8.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market has T.J. Hockenson at 2.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

T.J. Hockenson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

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 8, T.J. Hockenson has been on the field for 63 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.

In Week 5 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against IND he caught 4 of 5 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against DET he caught 4 of 5 targets for 58 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 T.J. Hockenson played 15 games and scored 112.8 PPR points, 7.5 a game, finishing TE26.

He caught 51 of 66 targets for 438 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 8.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

T.J. Hockenson was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Brenton Strange scored 9.8 PPR points a game and T.J. Hockenson 7.5, 2.3 a game between them.

Brenton Strange finished TE23 that year and T.J. Hockenson TE26.

T.J. Hockenson had 6 more targets than Brenton Strange, 66 to 60.

Brenton Strange had 102 more receiving yards than T.J. Hockenson, 540 to 438.

This season Brenton Strange holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 63 percent.

This season T.J. Hockenson holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 18 percent.

Byes and availability

Brenton Strange is off in Week 7 and T.J. Hockenson in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

T.J. Hockenson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.