Cade Otton or Xavier Hutchinson: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Cade Otton at 7.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.

The player markets price Xavier Hutchinson at 5.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 136th highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cade Otton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Xavier Hutchinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 134th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Cade Otton has been on the field for 94 percent of TB snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have averaged 7.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against CLE he caught 5 of 6 targets for 38 yards and did not score.

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

In Week 4 against GB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Xavier Hutchinson has been on the field for 58 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 13.9 air yards.

In Week 2 against CIN he caught 3 of 9 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against IND he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 51 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 3 of 5 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Cade Otton played 16 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.6 a game, finishing TE22.

He caught 59 of 81 targets for 572 yards and 1 touchdown, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Xavier Hutchinson played 17 games and scored 98.0 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR64.

He caught 35 of 57 targets for 428 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 12.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Xavier Hutchinson was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Cade Otton scored 7.6 PPR points a game and Xavier Hutchinson 5.8, 1.9 a game between them.

Cade Otton finished TE22 and Xavier Hutchinson WR64, which are two different ladders.

Cade Otton is a tight end and Xavier Hutchinson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

1.6 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 price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.