Deshaun Watson or Adonai Mitchell: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Adonai Mitchell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Deshaun Watson at 17.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.

No season market is posted for Adonai Mitchell, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 139 times and thrown 6.6 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 139 dropbacks and scrambled 13 times.

In Week 2 against TB he completed 24 of 30 passes for 238 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 24 yards.

In Week 3 against CAR he completed 16 of 30 passes for 144 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 9 times for 47 yards.

In Week 4 against PIT he completed 24 of 33 passes for 268 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 24 yards.

Through Week 2, Adonai Mitchell has been on the field for 76 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 15.8 air yards.

In Week 1 against TEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 60 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against GB he caught 6 of 12 targets for 63 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.

In 2025 Adonai Mitchell played 16 games and scored 87.9 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR73.

He caught 33 of 74 targets for 453 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 45 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Deshaun Watson is a quarterback and Adonai Mitchell a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Adonai Mitchell is listed as doubtful on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Adonai Mitchell has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.