Deshaun Watson or Lamar Jackson: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Lamar Jackson over Deshaun Watson
- Market projects
- 20.2
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 88%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 16.9
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Lamar Jackson, 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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QB13 · CLE · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 16.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB28 · BAL · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 160
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size200 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.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 91st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Lamar Jackson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 160th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 3.
The market-based projections
Deshaun Watson's market-based projection is 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Lamar Jackson is 1.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 market sources. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Lamar Jackson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
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 4, Lamar Jackson has been on the field for 88 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 111 times and thrown 10.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 111 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 2 against NO he completed 21 of 30 passes for 235 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 34 yards.
In Week 3 against DAL he completed 15 of 20 passes for 186 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 50 yards.
In Week 4 against TEN he completed 15 of 20 passes for 222 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 20 yards.
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Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
In 2025 Lamar Jackson played 13 games and scored 221.9 PPR points, 17.1 a game, finishing QB20.
He threw for 2549 yards on 302 attempts with 21 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 349 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 23.2 attempts a game at 8.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 92 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Deshaun Watson holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 88 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Lamar Jackson is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Deshaun Watson.
Lamar Jackson is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Lamar Jackson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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