Should I start Deshaun Watson or Cooper Kupp in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Deshaun Watson's market-based projection is 13.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

Cooper Kupp's market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Deshaun Watson, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cooper Kupp, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 220 times and thrown 7.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 46 of 220 dropbacks and scrambled 22 times.

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.

In Week 6 against BAL he completed 16 of 26 passes for 164 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 29 yards.

Through Week 6, Cooper Kupp has been on the field for 69 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 5 of 10 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Cooper Kupp played 16 games and scored 117.3 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing WR53.

He caught 47 of 70 targets for 593 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 12.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

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

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

7.1 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.