Should I start Deshaun Watson or Emeka Egbuka in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Deshaun Watson's market-based projection is 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Emeka Egbuka's market-based projection is 9.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 90th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Emeka Egbuka: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

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.

Through Week 5, Emeka Egbuka has been on the field for 85 percent of TB snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 14 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 33 targets have averaged 10.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against MIN he caught 5 of 9 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

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

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 6 of 9 targets for 38 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Emeka Egbuka played 17 games and scored 195.7 PPR points, 11.5 a game, finishing WR23.

He caught 63 of 127 targets for 938 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 7-8 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Deshaun Watson is a quarterback and Emeka Egbuka a wide receiver, 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 and Emeka Egbuka in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.8 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 projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.