Michael Penix Jr. or Deshaun Watson: 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 26, 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 Michael Penix Jr., 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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QB30 · ATL · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 4-5
- Books price
- 12.9 pts a game Wk 3 price
- Overall rank
- 152
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
QB32 · CLE · bye 11
- Books price
- 12.2 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 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 Michael Penix Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 136.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 155th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 160.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Michael Penix Jr., so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Deshaun Watson at 12.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 books. That is the 70th highest figure of the 170 players the books price.
This season through Week 2
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Michael Penix Jr. this season.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Michael Penix Jr. played 9 games and scored 123.3 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB33.
He threw for 1982 yards on 276 attempts with 9 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 70 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 30.7 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
What would change the answer
Michael Penix Jr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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