Should I start Drew Lock or Deshaun Watson in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 8:36 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : Seahawks to start QB Drew Lock vs. Raiders, giving Sam Darnold more time to heal (ESPN)
- : Drew Lock: Listed Questionable (Oblique) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Deshaun Watson: Questionable to Out (Concussion) (Sleeper injury feed)
Week 10 verdict
Start Drew Lock over Deshaun Watson
Deshaun Watson is listed out, so Drew Lock starts despite the lower projection.
- Market projects
- 14.9
- fantasy pts
- LV D vs QB
- 20.6
- 5th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 97%
- Through Week 9
- Market projects
- 15.2
- fantasy pts
- HOU D vs QB
- 18.5
- 12th most to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 99%
- Through Week 8
Start Drew Lock over Deshaun Watson in Week 10. Deshaun Watson is listed out, so Drew Lock starts despite the lower projection. Lock is listed questionable.
Should I drop Drew Lock for Deshaun Watson?
Not on these numbers alone. Drew Lock projects 105 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (15.0 a game over 7 games) and Deshaun Watson 107 (15.3 a game over 7 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. For Week 10 the call starts Drew Lock over Deshaun Watson. Drew Lock is listed questionable. Deshaun Watson is listed out.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB14 · SEA · bye 11
- Market-based projection
- 14.7 pts a game
QB21 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 5-3
- Overall rank
- 205
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The gap
- Board size310 draftable players
Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Drew Lock, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Deshaun Watson, and the board ranks him 205th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Drew Lock's market-based projection is 14.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 27th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Deshaun Watson is 1.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 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 so far
Through Week 9, Drew Lock has been on the field for 97 percent of SEA snaps, dropped back 80 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 80 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against NE he completed 16 of 22 passes for 187 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 14 yards.
In Week 2 against ARI he completed 19 of 26 passes for 235 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 9 against ARI he completed 19 of 28 passes for 175 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 18 yards.
Through Week 8, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 99 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 306 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 65 of 306 dropbacks and scrambled 24 times.
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.
In Week 7 against TEN he completed 25 of 36 passes for 308 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 19 yards.
In Week 8 against PIT he completed 27 of 39 passes for 324 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 3 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Drew Lock played 5 games and scored 0.1 PPR points, 0.0 a game, finishing QB73.
He threw for 15 yards on 3 attempts with 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for -5 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 0.6 attempts a game at 5.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 4 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
Head to head
This season Deshaun Watson holds the bigger snap share, 99 percent against 97 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Drew Lock is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Deshaun Watson is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Deshaun Watson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Drew Lock for Deshaun Watson?
Not on these numbers alone. Drew Lock projects 105 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (15.0 a game over 7 games) and Deshaun Watson 107 (15.3 a game over 7 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. For Week 10 the call starts Drew Lock over Deshaun Watson. Drew Lock is listed questionable. Deshaun Watson is listed out.
Should I drop Deshaun Watson for Drew Lock?
Not on these numbers alone. Deshaun Watson projects 107 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 7 games) and Drew Lock 105 (15.0 a game over 7 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. For Week 10 the call starts Drew Lock over Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson is listed out. Drew Lock is listed questionable.
Both players in full
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