Should I start Deshaun Watson or Kalif Raymond in Week 7?

Updated Oct 24, 1:06 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Deshaun Watson: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kalif Raymond's 54 percent of the snaps and 8 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.

Should I drop Kalif Raymond for Deshaun Watson?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Deshaun Watson projects 145 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 9 games), Kalif Raymond 59 (6.6 a game over 9 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Deshaun Watson

QB26 · CLE · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 3-3

Market-based projection: 13.4 pts a game

Kalif Raymond

WR52 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 1-6

Market-based projection: 6.4 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 140

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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 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kalif Raymond, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Deshaun Watson's market-based projection is 13.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 57th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Kalif Raymond, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 220 times and thrown 7.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 46 of 220 dropbacks and scrambled 22 times.

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.

In Week 5 against NYJ he completed 15 of 33 passes for 155 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 40 yards.

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.

Through Week 6, Kalif Raymond has been on the field for 60 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he carried 1 time for -2 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.

In 2025 Kalif Raymond played 15 games and scored 66.8 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR94.

He caught 24 of 30 targets for 289 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 2.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Deshaun Watson is a quarterback and Kalif Raymond a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Deshaun Watson is off in Week 11 and Kalif Raymond in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Kalif Raymond has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Kalif Raymond for Deshaun Watson?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Deshaun Watson projects 145 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 9 games), Kalif Raymond 59 (6.6 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop Deshaun Watson for Kalif Raymond?
No. Keep Deshaun Watson: he projects 145 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 9 games), Kalif Raymond 59 (6.6 a game over 9 games).

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