Deshaun Watson or Fernando Mendoza: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 11:11 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Fernando Mendoza, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB32 · CLE · bye 11
- Books price
- 12.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB33 · LV · bye 13
- Overall rank
- 198
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size227 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 157th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 162.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Fernando Mendoza: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 198th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 150.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Deshaun Watson at 12.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 books. That is the 71st highest figure of the 174 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Fernando Mendoza, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 65 times and thrown 6.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 65 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 1 against JAX he completed 16 of 22 passes for 205 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 38 yards.
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.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Fernando Mendoza this season.
Their last full seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
Fernando Mendoza is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Byes and availability
Deshaun Watson is off in Week 11 and Fernando Mendoza in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Fernando Mendoza has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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