Deshaun Watson or Tua Tagovailoa: 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 5:51 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Tua Tagovailoa, 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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QB32 · CLE · bye 11
- Books price
- 12.2 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB34 · ATL · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 5-9
- Overall rank
- 208
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
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 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.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tua Tagovailoa: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 208th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 161.
What the sportsbooks price
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.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Tua Tagovailoa, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 2
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.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tua Tagovailoa this season.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deshaun Watson in the last completed season.
In 2025 Tua Tagovailoa played 14 games and scored 175.7 PPR points, 12.5 a game, finishing QB25.
He threw for 2660 yards on 384 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 15 interceptions, and ran for 43 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 27.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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
Tua Tagovailoa has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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