Brenton Strange or Deshaun Watson: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Deshaun Watson, 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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TE10 · JAX · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 8.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB8 · CLE · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-2
- Overall rank
- 72
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size198 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 market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Brenton Strange: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Brenton Strange's market-based projection is 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Deshaun Watson is 18.1 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 9 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Deshaun Watson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Brenton Strange has been on the field for 79 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 26 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.
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.
In Week 5 against PHI he caught 7 of 8 targets for 68 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 183 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 37 of 183 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.
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.
In Week 5 against NYJ he completed 15 of 33 passes for 155 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 40 yards.
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Their 2025 seasons
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.
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
Side by side
Brenton Strange is a tight end and Deshaun Watson a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
What would change the answer
Deshaun Watson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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