Deshaun Watson or Keenan Allen: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Keenan Allen: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 73rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Deshaun Watson is 18.1 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 9 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Keenan Allen's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 83rd highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Deshaun Watson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 183 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 37 of 183 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.

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.

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.

Through Week 5, Keenan Allen has been on the field for 59 percent of IND snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 6.5 air yards.

In Week 2 against KC he caught 1 of 5 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against HOU he caught 6 of 9 targets for 63 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against PIT he caught 5 of 9 targets for 45 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Keenan Allen played 17 games and scored 182.7 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR29.

He caught 81 of 122 targets for 777 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

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

Byes and availability

Keenan Allen is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Deshaun Watson.

What would change the answer

Deshaun Watson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.