Deshaun Watson or Michael Pittman Jr.: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, 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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QB6 · CLE · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-2
- Overall rank
- 74
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
WR34 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs rec yds line 5-12
- Market-based projection
- 7.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 75
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 14
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size195 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 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Michael Pittman Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Deshaun Watson is 18.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 8 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No season market is posted for Michael Pittman Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
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, Michael Pittman Jr. has been on the field for 78 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.
His 12 targets have averaged 9.4 air yards.
In Week 1 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 58 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against CIN he caught 2 of 5 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CLE he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
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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 Michael Pittman Jr. in the last completed season.
Side by side
Deshaun Watson is a quarterback and Michael Pittman Jr. a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Michael Pittman Jr. is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Deshaun Watson.
Michael Pittman Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
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