Ty Johnson or Brenton Strange: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ty Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brenton Strange: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Ty Johnson is 6.8 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Brenton Strange's market-based projection is 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 88th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Ty Johnson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Ty Johnson has been on the field for 25 percent of BUF snaps, taken 1 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 21 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAC he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 72 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ty Johnson played 17 games and scored 100.3 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing RB47.

He carried 50 times for 200 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 33 targets for 263 more yards.

That came to 2.9 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 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.

Ty Johnson was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brenton Strange scored 9.8 PPR points a game and Ty Johnson 5.9, 3.9 a game between them.

Ty Johnson finished RB47 and Brenton Strange TE23, which are two different ladders.

Ty Johnson is a running back and Brenton Strange a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

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