Deshaun Watson or Tyler Higbee: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Deshaun Watson's market-based projection is 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Tyler Higbee's market-based projection is 7.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 97th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Deshaun Watson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 91st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Higbee: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

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 5, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 53 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 8.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 8 of 11 targets for 62 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 83 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 Higbee played 10 games and scored 71.1 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing TE40.

He caught 25 of 36 targets for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 3.6 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 11.2 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 Tyler Higbee a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

9.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.