Deshaun Watson or Marcus Mariota: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 6:26 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Marcus Mariota, 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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QB19 · CLE · bye 11
- Books price
- 16.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB · WAS · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 1-10
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size227 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 109th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 162.
Our board does not carry Marcus Mariota at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and the sportsbooks have no priced market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Deshaun Watson at 16.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 31st highest figure of the 175 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Marcus Mariota, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 65 times and thrown 6.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 65 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 1 against JAX he completed 16 of 22 passes for 205 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 38 yards.
In Week 2 against TB he completed 24 of 30 passes for 238 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 24 yards.
Through Week 2, Marcus Mariota has been on the field for 45 percent of WAS snaps, dropped back 17 times and thrown 11.7 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 4 of 17 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 2 against DAL he completed 11 of 16 passes for 111 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 3 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
In 2025 Marcus Mariota played 11 games and scored 132.5 PPR points, 12.0 a game, finishing QB32.
He threw for 1695 yards on 227 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 297 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 20.6 attempts a game at 7.5 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Deshaun Watson holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 45 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 Marcus Mariota.
What would change the answer
Marcus Mariota has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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