Should I start Zay Flowers or Deshaun Watson in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zay Flowers, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Zay Flowers is 3.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 9, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 67 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 0 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 64 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 8 of 11 targets for 137 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 0 of 5 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against JAX he carried 3 times for 17 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.

He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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

Side by side

Zay Flowers is a wide receiver and Deshaun Watson a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Zay Flowers is off in Week 13 and Deshaun Watson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Deshaun Watson is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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