Should I start Joe Fagnano or Deshaun Watson in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 5:36 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : Deshaun Watson: Listed Questionable (Concussion) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Rookie Joe Fagnano to start Thursday night vs. Jaguars, Jesse Minter says (ESPN)
Week 9 verdict
Start Deshaun Watson over Joe Fagnano
- Market projects
- 15.2
- recent weeks avg
- NO D vs QB
- 17.8
- 16th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 99%
- Through Week 8
- Market projects
- 9.1
- fantasy pts
- JAX D vs QB
- 15.6
- 9th fewest to QBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 78%
- Through Week 8
Start Deshaun Watson: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Joe Fagnano's 78 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.
QB22 · BAL · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 211
QB23 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 5-3
- Market-based projection
- 15.4 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 213
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The gap
- Board size306 draftable players
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 Joe Fagnano, 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 213th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Joe Fagnano is 9.1 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Deshaun Watson is 1.7 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.
Joe Fagnano's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Joe Fagnano has been on the field for 78 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 25 times and thrown 4.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 25 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 8 against BUF he completed 10 of 21 passes for 91 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 4 yards.
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 last full seasons
Joe Fagnano is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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 78 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 Joe Fagnano.
Joe Fagnano is listed as out on the injury report.
Both players in full
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