Deshaun Watson or MarShawn Lloyd: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 6:36 PM ET
Deshaun Watson is the start on the latest market price, 17.0 points to MarShawn Lloyd's 5.4, with MarShawn Lloyd on the market figure from his Week 4 game because his next market is not posted yet. This answer reorders when it is. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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QB10 · CLE · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Market price
- 17.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB46 · GB · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 2-2
- Market price
- 5.4 pts a game Wk 4 price
- Overall rank
- 164
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size218 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.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on MarShawn Lloyd: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 164th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 52.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Deshaun Watson at 17.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.
The market has MarShawn Lloyd at 3.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 15 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
MarShawn Lloyd's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 139 times and thrown 6.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 139 dropbacks and scrambled 13 times.
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.
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.
Through Week 4, MarShawn Lloyd has been on the field for 37 percent of GB snaps, taken 43 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 2 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 11 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 20 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against ATL he carried 4 times for 11 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TB he carried 7 times for 13 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 36 yards and did not score.
Their last full seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
The season feed carries no line for MarShawn Lloyd in the last completed season.
Side by side
Deshaun Watson is a quarterback and MarShawn Lloyd a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
MarShawn Lloyd is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Deshaun Watson.
What would change the answer
MarShawn Lloyd is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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