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Deshaun Watson or Carnell Tate: who should I start in Week 3?

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 25, 2026 at 4:36 AM ET

The sportsbooks price Deshaun Watson 7.4 points a game ahead of Carnell Tate 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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QB18 · CLE · bye 11

Books price
16.1 pts a game
Draft pick
no consensus

WR45 · TEN · bye 9

Books price
8.7 pts a game
Draft pick
no consensus

The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Price difference7.4 points a game
  • Board size227 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 16.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 30th highest figure of the 175 players the books price.

The player markets price Carnell Tate at 8.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 books. That is the 108th highest figure of the 175 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 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 162.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Carnell Tate: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 94.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 65 times and thrown 6.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 65 dropbacks and scrambled 6 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.

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.

Through Week 2, Carnell Tate has been on the field for 82 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 13 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.

In Week 1 against NYJ he caught 4 of 6 targets for 38 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against PHI he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

Their last full seasons

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

Carnell Tate is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

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

Byes and availability

Deshaun Watson is off in Week 11 and Carnell Tate in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.4 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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