Start Deshaun Watson or Jordan Love? Week 5
Locked at kickoff. Graded after.
Start Deshaun Watson over Jordan Love
Wrong: 12.2 to 25.3
- Market projected
- 16.4
- pre-game
- Scored
- 12.2
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 15.8
- pre-game
- Scored
- 25.3
- PPR pts
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Our Week 5 call
Start Deshaun Watson over Jordan Love in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Deshaun Watson at 16.4 points and Jordan Love at 15.8, a gap of 0.6. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 16.4 fantasy points for Deshaun Watson, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Deshaun Watson at 193.5 passing yards, 1.5 passing touchdowns and 25.5 rushing yards, with a 19% chance to score a touchdown (17, 18, 17 and 18 market sources).
Player markets imply 15.8 fantasy points for Jordan Love, with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Jordan Love at 239.5 passing yards, 1.5 passing touchdowns and 6.5 rushing yards, with a 10% chance to score a touchdown (16, 18, 14 and 17 market sources).
That puts Deshaun Watson 0.6 points ahead of Jordan Love on the market projections.
Injury status
Deshaun Watson is not on the injury report.
Jordan Love is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Deshaun Watson played 100 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 139 times and threw an average of 6.6 air yards per attempt.
Deshaun Watson, Week 1 against JAX: 51 of 51 snaps, 16 of 22 passes for 205 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception, 6 carries for 38 yards.
Deshaun Watson, Week 2 against TB: 58 of 58 snaps, 24 of 30 passes for 238 yards, 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 5 carries for 24 yards.
Deshaun Watson, Week 3 against CAR: 69 of 70 snaps, 16 of 30 passes for 144 yards, 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 9 carries for 47 yards.
Deshaun Watson, Week 4 against PIT: 64 of 64 snaps, 24 of 33 passes for 268 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception, 5 carries for 24 yards.
Through Week 4, Jordan Love played 100 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 162 times and threw an average of 8.4 air yards per attempt.
Jordan Love, Week 1 against MIN: 68 of 68 snaps, 21 of 42 passes for 387 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 0 yards.
Jordan Love, Week 2 against NYJ: 59 of 59 snaps, 16 of 29 passes for 145 yards, 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Jordan Love, Week 3 against ATL: 66 of 66 snaps, 28 of 53 passes for 312 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 0 yards.
Jordan Love, Week 4 against TB: 60 of 60 snaps, 22 of 30 passes for 197 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception, 1 carry for 4 yards.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Jordan Love played 15 games for GB and scored 241.1 PPR points, 16.1 a game, finishing QB15.
He completed 291 of 439 passes for 3381 yards, 23 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran 47 times for 199 yards and 0 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 94 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
How Week 5 went
Deshaun Watson scored 12.2 PPR points and Jordan Love scored 25.3.
The call was wrong: Jordan Love outscored Deshaun Watson by 13.1.
Deshaun Watson finished 4.2 points below the 16.4 the market projected.
Deshaun Watson, Week 5 against NYJ: 68 of 68 snaps, 15 of 33 passes for 155 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions, 6 carries for 40 yards, 12.2 PPR points.
Deshaun Watson finished as the week's QB22 in PPR scoring.
Jordan Love finished 9.5 points above the 15.8 the market projected.
Jordan Love, Week 5 against CHI: 59 of 61 snaps, 25 of 31 passes for 367 yards, 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 1 carry for 6 yards, 25.3 PPR points.
Jordan Love finished as the week's QB6 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 5 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB14 · CLE · bye unlisted
2026 vs pass yds line 3-2
- Overall rank
- 95
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
Ranked behind
QB16 · GB · bye 11
2026 vs pass yds line 3-2
- Overall rank
- 106
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. This call locked at kickoff and was not edited after. It is on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board11
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 5
- Board size292 draftable players
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