Should I start Deshaun Watson or Eli Raridon in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 7:21 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Deshaun Watson: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Eli Raridon's 58 percent of the snaps and 10 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB12 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 87
TE12 · NE · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 3.9 pts a game
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The gap
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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 Deshaun Watson, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Eli Raridon, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Deshaun Watson is 16.4 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Eli Raridon's market-based projection is 3.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 89th highest figure of the 194 players with a market-based projection.
Deshaun Watson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
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, Eli Raridon has been on the field for 51 percent of NE snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.
His 12 targets have averaged 7.8 air yards.
In Week 4 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LV he caught 5 of 5 targets for 57 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
Their last full seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
Eli Raridon is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Deshaun Watson is a quarterback and Eli Raridon a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Deshaun Watson is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Eli Raridon.
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.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
- Is Deshaun Watson playing Week 7?
- Is Eli Raridon playing Week 7?
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