Should I start Deshaun Watson or Stefon Diggs in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 9:51 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Deshaun Watson: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Stefon Diggs's 58 percent of the snaps and 22 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Deshaun Watson

QB9 · CLE · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 3-3

Market-based projection: 17.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 77

Stefon Diggs

WR31 · WAS · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 2-2

Market-based projection: 10.7 pts a game

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Deshaun Watson, and the board ranks him 77th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Stefon Diggs, and the board ranks him 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 47.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Deshaun Watson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Stefon Diggs's market-based projection is 10.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 36th highest figure of the 77 players with a market-based projection.

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, Stefon Diggs has been on the field for 59 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 14 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 9.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against DAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 47 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 3 against SEA he caught 4 of 7 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against IND he caught 5 of 9 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.

In 2025 Stefon Diggs played 17 games and scored 210.3 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing WR17.

He caught 85 of 102 targets for 1013 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Deshaun Watson is a quarterback and Stefon Diggs a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Deshaun Watson is off in Week 11 and Stefon Diggs in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Stefon Diggs is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Deshaun Watson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.