Should I start Josh Jacobs or Deshaun Watson in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 3:11 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Josh Jacobs: Questionable to Out (Finger, Surgery) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Matt LaFleur: Packers' Josh Jacobs needs surgery on finger; IR not ruled out (ESPN)
- : Josh Jacobs: Listed Questionable (Hand) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Deshaun Watson: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Josh Jacobs's 47 percent of the snaps and 47 percent of the carries. 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.
Should I drop Josh Jacobs for Deshaun Watson?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Deshaun Watson projects 107 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 7 games), Josh Jacobs 90 (12.9 a game over 7 games). Josh Jacobs is listed out. Deshaun Watson is listed questionable.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB34 · GB · bye 11
2025 vs rush yds line 8-7
- Market-based projection
- 14.6 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 105
QB19 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 5-3
- Market-based projection
- 15.1 pts a game
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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 Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Deshaun Watson, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 5.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Deshaun Watson's market-based projection is 15.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.
Josh Jacobs's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 9, Josh Jacobs has been on the field for 47 percent of GB snaps, taken 47 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 5 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 2.8 air yards.
In Week 7 against DET he carried 11 times for 36 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against CAR he carried 21 times for 39 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 13 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 9 against NE he carried 4 times for 5 yards and did not score.
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 Josh Jacobs played 15 games and scored 237.1 PPR points, 15.8 a game, finishing RB13.
He carried 234 times for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 44 targets for 282 more yards.
That came to 15.6 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
Side by side
Josh Jacobs is a running back and Deshaun Watson a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Josh Jacobs is listed as out on the injury report.
Deshaun Watson is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Josh Jacobs has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Josh Jacobs for Deshaun Watson?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Deshaun Watson projects 107 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 7 games), Josh Jacobs 90 (12.9 a game over 7 games). Josh Jacobs is listed out. Deshaun Watson is listed questionable.
Should I drop Deshaun Watson for Josh Jacobs?
No. Keep Deshaun Watson: he projects 107 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 7 games), Josh Jacobs 90 (12.9 a game over 7 games). Deshaun Watson is listed questionable. Josh Jacobs is listed out.
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