Jared Goff or Deshaun Watson: 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 24, 2026 at 10:06 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Jared Goff, 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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QB17 · DET · bye 6
2025 vs pass yds line 10-7
- Overall rank
- 97
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
QB20 · CLE · bye 11
- Books price
- 16.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 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 Jared Goff: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 165.
What the sportsbooks price
The books have Jared Goff at 16.3 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 17 books. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The player markets price Deshaun Watson at 16.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 34th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
Jared Goff's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Jared Goff has been on the field for 100 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 85 times and thrown 7.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 18 of 85 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.
In Week 1 against NO he completed 26 of 39 passes for 206 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
In Week 2 against BUF he completed 26 of 38 passes for 327 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 7 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jared Goff played 17 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 17.9 a game, finishing QB9.
He threw for 4564 yards on 578 attempts with 34 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 45 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 34.0 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 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
Their snap share this season is the same, 100 percent each.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Jared Goff is off in Week 6 and Deshaun Watson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Jared Goff is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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