Should I start Christian Watson or Parker Washington in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Christian Watson's market-based projection is 14.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

Parker Washington's market-based projection is 14.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 15th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Christian Watson, and the board ranks him 21st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Parker Washington, and the board ranks him 23rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 18.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Christian Watson has been on the field for 77 percent of GB snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 21 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 3 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 66 targets have averaged 13.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he caught 3 of 8 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he caught 5 of 8 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CAR he caught 8 of 10 targets for 113 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Parker Washington has been on the field for 77 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 16 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 48 targets have averaged 12.9 air yards.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 6 of 9 targets for 124 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against HOU he caught 4 of 11 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against IND he carried 1 time for 10 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Christian Watson played 10 games and scored 132.4 PPR points, 13.2 a game, finishing WR46.

He caught 35 of 55 targets for 611 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5-6 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 18 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Parker Washington played 16 games and scored 184.7 PPR points, 11.5 a game, finishing WR27.

He caught 58 of 95 targets for 847 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Parker Washington was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Christian Watson scored 13.2 PPR points a game and Parker Washington 11.5, 1.7 a game between them.

Christian Watson finished WR46 that year and Parker Washington WR27.

Parker Washington had 40 more targets than Christian Watson, 95 to 55.

Parker Washington had 236 more receiving yards than Christian Watson, 847 to 611.

Their snap share this season is the same, 77 percent each.

This season Parker Washington holds the bigger target share, 25 percent against 22 percent.

Byes and availability

Christian Watson is off in Week 11 and Parker Washington in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Christian Watson is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.7 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.