Cooper Kupp or Xavier Hutchinson: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Cooper Kupp over Xavier Hutchinson
- Market projects
- 6.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 64%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 11%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 5.7
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 54%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 18%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Xavier Hutchinson, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR42 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 6.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR · HOU · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size202 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Cooper Kupp: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 119th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Xavier Hutchinson at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Cooper Kupp's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 113th highest figure of the 159 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Xavier Hutchinson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Cooper Kupp has been on the field for 64 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 9.2 air yards.
In Week 3 against WAS he caught 4 of 5 targets for 46 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Xavier Hutchinson has been on the field for 54 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 31 targets have averaged 12.6 air yards.
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.
In Week 5 against TEN he caught 4 of 5 targets for 65 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Cooper Kupp played 16 games and scored 117.3 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing WR53.
He caught 47 of 70 targets for 593 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.
That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 12.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 76 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.
Head to head
In 2025 Cooper Kupp scored 7.3 PPR points a game and Xavier Hutchinson 5.8, 1.6 a game between them.
Cooper Kupp finished WR53 that year and Xavier Hutchinson WR64.
Cooper Kupp had 13 more targets than Xavier Hutchinson, 70 to 57.
Cooper Kupp had 165 more receiving yards than Xavier Hutchinson, 593 to 428.
This season Cooper Kupp holds the bigger snap share, 64 percent against 54 percent.
This season Xavier Hutchinson holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 11 percent.
Byes and availability
Cooper Kupp is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Xavier Hutchinson.
What would change the answer
Xavier Hutchinson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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