Darnell Washington or Xavier Hutchinson: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, 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 7, 2026 at 9:16 PM ET
The market prices Darnell Washington 2.0 points a game ahead of Xavier Hutchinson this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the market price is the live read on these two.
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TE23 · PIT · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Market price
- 6.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR58 · HOU · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Market price
- 4.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference2.0 points a game
- Board size219 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.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Darnell Washington at 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 130th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.
The player markets price Xavier Hutchinson at 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 153rd highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Darnell Washington: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Xavier Hutchinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.
He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.
That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 57 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 Xavier Hutchinson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 1.2 a game between them.
Darnell Washington finished TE39 and Xavier Hutchinson WR64, which are two different ladders.
Darnell Washington 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
2.0 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.
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