Should I start Carson Wentz or Xavier Hutchinson in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 7:31 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Carson Wentz: 88 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Xavier Hutchinson's 64 percent of the snaps and 14 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB21 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass td line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 14.8 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 117
WR42 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 2-6
- Market-based projection
- 6.6 pts a game
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Carson Wentz, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Xavier Hutchinson, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Carson Wentz, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Xavier Hutchinson's market-based projection is 6.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 113th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Carson Wentz has been on the field for 88 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 72 times and thrown 9.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 72 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.
In Week 1 against GB he completed 12 of 19 passes for 133 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
In Week 2 against CHI he completed 11 of 20 passes for 143 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.
In Week 9 against BUF he completed 8 of 24 passes for 81 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.
Through Week 9, Xavier Hutchinson has been on the field for 58 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 13 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 3 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 51 two minute targets.
His 45 targets have averaged 11.4 air yards.
In Week 6 against JAX he caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against NYG he carried 2 times for 12 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 9 against LAC he caught 3 of 5 targets for 29 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Carson Wentz played 5 games and scored 75.3 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing QB39.
He threw for 1216 yards on 169 attempts with 6 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 57 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 33.8 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 71 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 12 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Carson Wentz scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Xavier Hutchinson 5.8, 9.3 a game between them.
Carson Wentz finished QB39 and Xavier Hutchinson WR64, which are two different ladders.
Carson Wentz is a quarterback and Xavier Hutchinson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Carson Wentz is off in Week 6 and Xavier Hutchinson in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Carson Wentz is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Carson Wentz has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 10 on the board
- Is Carson Wentz playing Week 10?
- Is Xavier Hutchinson playing Week 10?
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