Should I start Deshaun Watson or Van Jefferson in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Deshaun Watson's market-based projection is 15.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

Van Jefferson's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Deshaun Watson, and the board ranks him 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Van Jefferson, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 8, Deshaun Watson has been on the field for 99 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 306 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 65 of 306 dropbacks and scrambled 24 times.

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.

In Week 8 against PIT he completed 27 of 39 passes for 324 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 3 yards.

Through Week 9, Van Jefferson has been on the field for 25 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 11.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 8 against PHI he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAR he caught 5 of 7 targets for 58 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Van Jefferson played 16 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing WR88.

He caught 29 of 52 targets for 350 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 12.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Deshaun Watson is a quarterback and Van Jefferson 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 Van Jefferson in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Deshaun Watson is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

11.2 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.