Deshaun Watson or Aaron Rodgers: who to draft first
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 10:16 AM ET
The sportsbooks price Deshaun Watson 0.5 points a game ahead of Aaron Rodgers this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the books' price is the live market on these two.
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QB24 · CLE · bye 11
- Books price
- 12.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB25 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs pass yds line 8-8
- Books price
- 11.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.5 points a game
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Deshaun Watson at 12.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 books. That is the 62nd highest figure of the 182 players the books price.
The player markets price Aaron Rodgers at 11.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 66th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 166.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Aaron Rodgers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 119.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 30 times and thrown 10.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 30 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 1 against JAX he completed 16 of 22 passes for 205 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 38 yards.
Through Week 1, Aaron Rodgers has been on the field for 100 percent of PIT snaps, dropped back 42 times and thrown 10.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 5 of 42 dropbacks.
In Week 1 against ATL he completed 24 of 40 passes for 221 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
In 2025 Aaron Rodgers played 16 games and scored 234.1 PPR points, 14.6 a game, finishing QB18.
He threw for 3322 yards on 498 attempts with 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 61 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 31.1 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Deshaun Watson is off in Week 11 and Aaron Rodgers in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
0.5 points a game is the entire case. The books restate 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 books when it does.
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