Brenton Strange

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• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  Brenton Strange — Week 2: Two Catches, Seventeen Yards

  Strange caught both of his targets for 17 yards: 14 on first and 10 with 13 seconds left in the first quarter on the touchdown drive, and 3 to the Denver 6 in the third. A 10-yard catch in the second quarter came back on a teammate's illegal shift, in a 20–13 loss to the Broncos.

• Week 1Sep 14, 2026

  Brenton Strange — Week 1: A Fourteen-Yard Touchdown on Three Targets

  Strange caught two of three targets for twenty-three yards and the fourteen-yard touchdown, short middle on first and ten from the Cleveland fourteen, that made it 24–0 in the second quarter. His one incompletion came two plays earlier on the same drive, and Jacksonville's tight ends were thrown to five times in all in a 34–10 win over the Browns.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  Brenton Strange Camp Update — August 31: A Fifth Straight Clean Week

  Jacksonville traded veteran tight end Hunter Long to Arizona and kept Brenton Strange atop a four-man room with two rookies and Quintin Morris. Strange himself produced no injury item and no absence item all week — the fifth consecutive clean week for a player whose only real question is availability.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Brenton Strange Camp Update — August 23: A Red-Zone Score on Carolina's Ones

  Brenton Strange caught one of Trevor Lawrence's three consecutive red-zone touchdowns against Carolina's starting defense in Wednesday's joint practice, then rested through Friday's game with the other starters. Another healthy week, now with a scoring look attached.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Brenton Strange Camp Update — August 16: Quiet Is the Good Version

  No injury news, no drama, and the only Brenton Strange headlines were Brenton Strange talking. For a tight end whose one open question is availability, a silent week is the answer you want.

• 2026 PreviewJul 3, 2026

  Brenton Strange 2026 Season Preview — what repeats, what doesn't

  Strange played all 12 games in 2025 and averaged 7.9 half-PPR points per game, finishing as TE23 on 95 total points. A career availability rate of 64.7% across 2021–25 means staying on the field has been the harder ask, so the durability shown this season matters as much as the production itself.

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  Jacksonville watched Brenton Strange play 12 games last season and concluded it had seen enough: three more years, up to 48 million, 25 guaranteed, signed June 20-fourth. The market watched the same 12 games and concluded: tight end 21, pick one-46. 25 million guaranteed says starter; the price says maybe. The tape says the truth is in the target column.

  The season: 12 games, 46 catches on 60 targets for 540 yards and three touchdowns — then five games lost to an October injury: hip and quad, a ligament tear in there, injured reserve, no surgery required, per the reporting at the time. 7.9 Half-PPR points a game, eighteenth among tight ends per game, 20-third in total. The rate stats are the argument: a 77 percent catch rate, five targets a game, 15.8 percent of the targets in his games — on a 13-four division winner with a loaded receiver room. When he played, he was a top-18 tight end in an offense that didn't need him to be.

  The career is three ascending steps: one-seven a game in a seven-game rookie cameo behind Evan Engram, five-one in year two — 40 catches on 53 targets once the room opened — seven-nine in year three. The target trajectory underneath: 1.3 a game, then 3.8, then five even. A second-round pick in 20-23 finally given the room, climbing exactly the way the draft capital predicted.

  What repeats? The stat his game is built on: tight end targets replicate at point-eight year over year in the current era — 238 player-seasons — and his five a game is real, recent, and growing. Efficiency barely repeats at the position — point-one-five — but he isn't an efficiency spike; nine yards a target is solid, not gaudy. No touchdown inflation either: three scores, share of point-one-five, under every line we track. The profile our library likes most: volume-built, luck-free, ascending.

  The situation, dated. The extension: June 20-fourth, three years, up to 48 million with 25 guaranteed, per NFL Network — the structure back-loaded team-friendly, per SI's cap breakdown. The context: Liam Coen's 13-win offense returns nearly intact — coordinator Grant Udinski retained in January, Coen still calling plays, per the team site — with Trevor Lawrence coming off a fifth-place MVP finish. The target competition is the honest ceiling: Brian Thomas Junior chasing his rookie form, Jakobi Meyers paid in December, Travis Hunter's snap count tilting toward defense, per the general manager in January. Johnny Mundt was released; Quintin Morris and Hunter Long sit behind him — the room is his.

  The price: TE21 at pick one-46 for the eighteenth tight end by rate — a small discount for a 12-game sample, in a market that just watched the team remove the sample-size doubt with its checkbook. Our verdict: no call — the friendly kind. The price is fair for the games played, the ascent is real, and the gap between TE18-by-rate and TE21-by-price isn't a tier — it's a rounding error with upside attached. Caveat, spoken: this receiver room caps the target math no matter how good he is; five a game might be the ceiling and the floor at once.

  Watch September targets against the five-a-game baseline, and the red-zone rotation — a tight end this offense just paid tends to start seeing the fade routes that turn seven-nine a game into 10. Availability is the only unanswered question the contract couldn't buy: he's played 12 14 games in his two real seasons, and a first 16-game year would settle the last doubt the price is holding onto. He's one of your guys? This show covers your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.