Deshaun Watson or Caleb Williams: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 11:26 AM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Deshaun Watson over Caleb Williams
- Market projects
- 18.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 17.8
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 93%
- Through Week 2
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, 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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QB6 · CLE · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-2
- Overall rank
- 74
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
QB9 · CHI · bye 10
2025 vs pass yds line 10-7
- Overall rank
- 81
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size195 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 Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Caleb Williams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Deshaun Watson is 18.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 8 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Caleb Williams is 17.6 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is 80 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 so far
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.
Through Week 2, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 93 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 70 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 70 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 1 against CAR he completed 21 of 29 passes for 269 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 10 times for 65 yards.
In Week 2 against MIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 138 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 42 yards.
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Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
In 2025 Caleb Williams played 17 games and scored 325.2 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB5.
He threw for 3942 yards on 568 attempts with 27 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 383 yards and 3 touchdowns.
That came to 33.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Deshaun Watson holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 93 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Caleb Williams is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Deshaun Watson.
Caleb Williams is listed as questionable on the injury report.
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