Should I start Quinshon Judkins or Jordan Watkins in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Quinshon Judkins, and the board ranks him 55th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Watkins, and the board ranks him 153rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Quinshon Judkins's market-based projection is 9.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 74th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jordan Watkins is 1.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Quinshon Judkins has been on the field for 52 percent of CLE snaps, taken 59 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 43 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 9 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 50 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have come 1.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against TEN he carried 17 times for 96 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against PIT he carried 11 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against NO he carried 15 times for 43 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Jordan Watkins has been on the field for 56 percent of SF snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 16.5 air yards.

In Week 6 against WAS he caught 1 of 1 target for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ATL he caught 3 of 6 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LV he caught 4 of 4 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins played 15 games and scored 169.8 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB26.

He carried 230 times for 827 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 26 of 36 targets for 171 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jordan Watkins played 4 games and scored 4.6 PPR points, 1.2 a game.

He caught 2 of 3 targets for 26 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 13.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 7 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Quinshon Judkins was available for 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Jordan Watkins 1.2, 10.2 a game between them.

Quinshon Judkins is a running back and Jordan Watkins a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Quinshon Judkins is off in Week 11 and Jordan Watkins in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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