Should I start Deshaun Watson or Jaxson Dart in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 4:16 PM 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 Jaxson Dart's 60 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
QB33 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 5-3
- Market-based projection
- 15.4 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 228
QB · NYG · bye 8
2025 vs pass td line 5-7
- Overall rank
- 246
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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 228th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaxson Dart, and the board ranks him 246th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 16.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Deshaun Watson is 1.4 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.
No season market is posted for Jaxson Dart, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
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.
Through Week 2, Jaxson Dart has been on the field for 60 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 38 times and thrown 8.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 6 of 38 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against DAL he completed 23 of 29 passes for 230 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 59 yards.
In Week 2 against LAR he completed 3 of 5 passes for 20 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
In 2025 Jaxson Dart played 14 games and scored 246.6 PPR points, 17.6 a game, finishing QB14.
He threw for 2272 yards on 339 attempts with 15 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 487 yards and 9 touchdowns.
That came to 24.2 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Deshaun Watson holds the bigger snap share, 99 percent against 60 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Deshaun Watson is off in Week 11 and Jaxson Dart in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Deshaun Watson is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Jaxson Dart is listed as ir on the injury report.
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