Tyson Bagent or Brenton Strange: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Tyson Bagent at 15.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 34th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The player markets price Brenton Strange at 8.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 102nd highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyson Bagent: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brenton Strange: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Tyson Bagent has been on the field for 62 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 45 times and thrown 6.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 4 of 45 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.

In Week 2 against MIN he completed 5 of 8 passes for 54 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

In Week 4 against NYJ he completed 25 of 34 passes for 268 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.

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

In 2025 Tyson Bagent played 3 games and scored 2.6 PPR points, 0.9 a game, finishing QB67.

He threw for 47 yards on 4 attempts with 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 1.3 attempts a game at 11.8 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 1 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.

Brenton Strange was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brenton Strange scored 9.8 PPR points a game and Tyson Bagent 0.9, 9.0 a game between them.

Tyson Bagent finished QB67 and Brenton Strange TE23, which are two different ladders.

Tyson Bagent is a quarterback 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

7.4 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.