Should I start Efton Chism or Xavier Hutchinson in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Efton Chism, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Xavier Hutchinson, and the board ranks him 157th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Efton Chism's market-based projection is 4.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 41st highest figure of the 158 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Xavier Hutchinson is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Xavier Hutchinson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Efton Chism has been on the field for 43 percent of NE snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 2 of 4 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LV he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Xavier Hutchinson has been on the field for 54 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 11.9 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against JAX he caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Efton Chism played 8 games and scored 16.5 PPR points, 2.1 a game.

He caught 3 of 3 targets for 75 yards and 1 touchdown, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 25.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 14 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 9 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Xavier Hutchinson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Efton Chism 2.1, 3.7 a game between them.

Xavier Hutchinson had 54 more targets than Efton Chism, 57 to 3.

Xavier Hutchinson had 353 more receiving yards than Efton Chism, 428 to 75.

This season Xavier Hutchinson holds the bigger snap share, 54 percent against 43 percent.

This season Xavier Hutchinson holds the bigger target share, 17 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Xavier Hutchinson is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Efton Chism.

What would change the answer

Xavier Hutchinson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.