Colston Loveland or Deshaun Watson: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colston Loveland: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 73rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

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.

The market-based projections

Colston Loveland's market-based projection is 9.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 152 players with a market-based projection.

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.

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, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 85 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 6 of 9 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 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

Colston Loveland 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.

Byes and availability

Colston Loveland is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Deshaun Watson.

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.