Braelon Allen or Deshaun Watson: 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
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Braelon Allen, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB44 · NYJ · bye 13
2025 vs rush yds line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 147
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
QB24 · CLE · bye 11
- Books price
- 12.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- 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.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Braelon Allen: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.
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.
What the sportsbooks price
The books have Braelon Allen at 5.1 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 15 books. That is 90 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
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.
Braelon Allen's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Braelon Allen has been on the field for 40 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 28 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 5 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 0.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against TEN he carried 10 times for 40 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Braelon Allen played 4 games and scored 15.3 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB100.
He carried 18 times for 76 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 more yards.
That came to 4.5 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 0.5 catches a game.
He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
Side by side
Braelon Allen is a running back and Deshaun Watson a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Braelon Allen is off in Week 13 and Deshaun Watson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Braelon Allen is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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