Joe Burrow or Deshaun Watson: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 11:31 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Joe Burrow, 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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QB8 · CIN · bye 6
2026 vs pass yds line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 69
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
QB11 · CLE · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 16.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 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 market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Joe Burrow: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The market has Joe Burrow at 17.5 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 12 market sources. 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 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.
Joe Burrow's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 100 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 171 times and thrown 7.1 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 171 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 2 against HOU he completed 20 of 31 passes for 207 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
In Week 3 against PIT he completed 28 of 37 passes for 282 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 13 yards.
In Week 4 against JAX he completed 39 of 54 passes for 428 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.
Through Week 4, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 139 times and thrown 6.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 139 dropbacks and scrambled 13 times.
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.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.
He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 86 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
Joe Burrow is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Deshaun Watson.
What would change the answer
Joe Burrow is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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