Should I start Deshaun Watson or Tyler Allgeier in Week 7?

Updated Oct 22, 4:51 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Deshaun Watson: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tyler Allgeier's 51 percent of the snaps and 37 percent of the carries. 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 Tyler Allgeier for Deshaun Watson?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Deshaun Watson projects 161 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 10 games), Tyler Allgeier 72 (7.2 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

QB27 · CLE · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 3-3

Market-based projection: 13.3 pts a game

Tyler Allgeier

RB49 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs carries line 3-3

Market-based projection: 12.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 151

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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 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Allgeier, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Deshaun Watson's market-based projection is 13.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 59th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tyler Allgeier is 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 10 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 220 times and thrown 7.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 46 of 220 dropbacks and scrambled 22 times.

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.

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.

Through Week 6, Tyler Allgeier has been on the field for 51 percent of ARI snaps, taken 34 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have come 2.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against NYG he carried 8 times for 42 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against DET he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAR he carried 18 times for 38 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Tyler Allgeier played 17 games and scored 123.0 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB39.

He carried 143 times for 514 yards and 8 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 96 more yards.

That came to 8.4 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 0.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Deshaun Watson is a quarterback and Tyler Allgeier a running back, 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 Tyler Allgeier in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Tyler Allgeier 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 Tyler Allgeier for Deshaun Watson?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Deshaun Watson projects 161 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 10 games), Tyler Allgeier 72 (7.2 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Deshaun Watson for Tyler Allgeier?
No. Keep Deshaun Watson: he projects 161 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 10 games), Tyler Allgeier 72 (7.2 a game over 10 games).