Should I start Travis Kelce or Brenton Strange in Week 6?
Updated Oct 19, 3:46 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.
Week 6 verdict
Start Travis Kelce over Brenton Strange
Wrong: 9.3 to 9.4
- Market projected
- 12.8
- pre-game
- LAC D vs TE
- 9.8
- 9th fewest to TEs (2026)
- Target share
- 17%
- Week 6
- Scored
- 9.3
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 8.8
- pre-game
- HOU D vs TE
- 9.0
- 6th fewest to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 76%
- Week 6
- Target share
- 17%
- Week 6
- Scored
- 9.4
- PPR pts
Week 6 result: the call to start Travis Kelce over Brenton Strange was wrong. Kelce scored 9.3 PPR points to 9.4 for Strange. Projected 12.9 to 8.8 before kickoff.
Should I drop Brenton Strange for Travis Kelce?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Travis Kelce projects 139 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (12.6 a game over 11 games), Brenton Strange 87 (8.7 a game over 10 games).
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
TE6 · KC · bye 5
2026 vs anytime td line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 12.6 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 40
TE13 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 8.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 93
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Travis Kelce, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Brenton Strange, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Travis Kelce, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Brenton Strange, 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 6
Through Week 6, Travis Kelce has been on the field for 80 percent of KC snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.
His 27 targets have averaged 6.2 air yards.
In Week 3 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against LV he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against LAC he caught 4 of 5 targets for 53 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Brenton Strange has been on the field for 79 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 33 targets have averaged 7.7 air yards.
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.
In Week 6 against HOU he caught 5 of 7 targets for 44 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Travis Kelce played 17 games and scored 193.2 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing TE3.
He caught 76 of 108 targets for 851 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 6.4 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Travis Kelce was available for 5 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Travis Kelce scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Brenton Strange 9.8, 1.5 a game between them.
Travis Kelce finished TE3 that year and Brenton Strange TE23.
Travis Kelce had 48 more targets than Brenton Strange, 108 to 60.
Travis Kelce had 311 more receiving yards than Brenton Strange, 851 to 540.
This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 79 percent.
This season Brenton Strange holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 18 percent.
Byes and availability
Travis Kelce is off in Week 5 and Brenton Strange in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Brenton Strange for Travis Kelce?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Travis Kelce projects 139 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (12.6 a game over 11 games), Brenton Strange 87 (8.7 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Travis Kelce for Brenton Strange?
No. Keep Travis Kelce: he projects 139 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (12.6 a game over 11 games), Brenton Strange 87 (8.7 a game over 10 games).
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