DeMario Douglas or Xavier Hutchinson: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start DeMario Douglas over Xavier Hutchinson
- Market projects
- 6.2
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 53%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 15%
- 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 neither of them has a market-based projection this season, 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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WR · NE · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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
Our board does not carry DeMario Douglas 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.
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
No season market is posted for DeMario Douglas, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Xavier Hutchinson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 53 percent of NE snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 22 targets have averaged 11.7 air yards.
In Week 3 against JAX he caught 1 of 5 targets for 38 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against BUF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LV he caught 4 of 5 targets for 65 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
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 DeMario Douglas played 17 games and scored 95.8 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing WR65.
He caught 31 of 46 targets for 447 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 26 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.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Xavier Hutchinson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and DeMario Douglas 5.6, 0.1 a game between them.
DeMario Douglas finished WR65 that year and Xavier Hutchinson WR64.
Xavier Hutchinson had 11 more targets than DeMario Douglas, 57 to 46.
DeMario Douglas had 19 more receiving yards than Xavier Hutchinson, 447 to 428.
This season Xavier Hutchinson holds the bigger snap share, 54 percent against 53 percent.
This season Xavier Hutchinson holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 15 percent.
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