Should I start Gardner Minshew II or Deshaun Watson in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 8:16 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Deshaun Watson: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Gardner Minshew II's 42 percent of the snaps and 0 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.
QB25 · ARI · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 9.5 pts a game
QB27 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 5-3
- Market-based projection
- 15.4 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 218
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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 Gardner Minshew II, and the board ranks him 211th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Deshaun Watson, and the board ranks him 218th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Gardner Minshew II's market-based projection is 9.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Deshaun Watson is 1.5 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 through Week 8
Through Week 8, Gardner Minshew II has been on the field for 42 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 21 times and thrown 6.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 1 of 21 dropbacks.
In Week 8 against DAL he completed 17 of 20 passes for 188 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
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 Gardner Minshew II played 4 games and scored 0.7 PPR points, 0.2 a game, finishing QB72.
He threw for 37 yards on 13 attempts with 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, and ran for 2 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 3.3 attempts a game at 2.8 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 42 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Deshaun Watson is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Gardner Minshew II.
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 9 on the board
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