Deshaun Watson or Courtland Sutton: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Deshaun Watson at 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 207 players the market prices.

The player markets price Courtland Sutton at 9.3 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 102nd highest figure of the 207 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Courtland Sutton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 139 times and thrown 6.6 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 139 dropbacks and scrambled 13 times.

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.

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.

Through Week 4, Courtland Sutton has been on the field for 78 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 11.5 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 3 of 4 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 3 of 7 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Courtland Sutton played 17 games and scored 219.7 PPR points, 12.9 a game, finishing WR13.

He caught 74 of 124 targets for 1017 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 7.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

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

Byes and availability

Courtland Sutton is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Deshaun Watson.

What would change the answer

7.5 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 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 market price when it does.