Should I start Deshaun Watson or Tommy Tremble in Week 8?

Updated Oct 29, 1:21 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

Start Deshaun Watson: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tommy Tremble's 57 percent of the snaps and 10 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.

Should I drop Tommy Tremble for Deshaun Watson?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Deshaun Watson projects 138 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 9 games), Tommy Tremble 51 (5.1 a game over 10 games).

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

Deshaun Watson

QB25 · CLE · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 4-3

Overall rank: 139

Tommy Tremble

TE24 · CAR · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection: 5.4 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 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tommy Tremble, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Deshaun Watson is 14.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 9 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Tommy Tremble's market-based projection is 5.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 120th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Deshaun Watson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 258 times and thrown 7.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 53 of 258 dropbacks and scrambled 23 times.

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.

In Week 6 against BAL he completed 16 of 26 passes for 164 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 29 yards.

In Week 7 against TEN he completed 25 of 36 passes for 308 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 19 yards.

Through Week 7, Tommy Tremble has been on the field for 55 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 46 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Tommy Tremble played 17 games and scored 63.9 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing TE42.

He caught 27 of 37 targets for 249 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Deshaun Watson is a quarterback and Tommy Tremble a tight end, 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. No bye is listed for Tommy Tremble.

What would change the answer

Deshaun Watson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Tommy Tremble for Deshaun Watson?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Deshaun Watson projects 138 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 9 games), Tommy Tremble 51 (5.1 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Deshaun Watson for Tommy Tremble?
No. Keep Deshaun Watson: he projects 138 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 9 games), Tommy Tremble 51 (5.1 a game over 10 games).

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