Should I start Jaylin Noel or Xavier Legette in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 3:46 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : Texans put WR Jaylin Noel on IR with expected season-ending turf toe injury (ESPN)
- : Jaylin Noel: Questionable to IR (Toe, Sprain) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Xavier Legette: 51 percent of the snaps and 9 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jaylin Noel's 42 percent of the snaps and 12 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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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.
WR · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 2-5
- Overall rank
- 249
WR · CAR · bye 5
2025 vs rec yds line 5-10
- Overall rank
- 253
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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 Jaylin Noel, and the board ranks him 249th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Xavier Legette, and the board ranks him 253rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jaylin Noel, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Xavier Legette, 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 so far
Through Week 7, Jaylin Noel has been on the field for 44 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 41 two minute targets.
His 23 targets have averaged 9.8 air yards.
In Week 5 against TEN he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 41 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against JAX he caught 4 of 4 targets for 107 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against NYG he caught 2 of 2 targets for -3 yards and did not score.
Through Week 2, Xavier Legette has been on the field for 51 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 16.2 air yards.
In Week 1 against CHI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against ATL he caught 2 of 4 targets for 64 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jaylin Noel played 17 games and scored 68.4 PPR points, 4.0 a game, finishing WR91.
He caught 26 of 35 targets for 292 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.
That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 27 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Xavier Legette played 15 games and scored 89.3 PPR points, 6.0 a game, finishing WR71.
He caught 35 of 64 targets for 363 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 4.3 targets a game, a 55 percent catch rate and 10.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 69 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jaylin Noel was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Xavier Legette scored 6.0 PPR points a game and Jaylin Noel 4.0, 1.9 a game between them.
Jaylin Noel finished WR91 that year and Xavier Legette WR71.
Xavier Legette had 29 more targets than Jaylin Noel, 64 to 35.
Xavier Legette had 71 more receiving yards than Jaylin Noel, 363 to 292.
This season Xavier Legette holds the bigger snap share, 51 percent against 44 percent.
This season Jaylin Noel holds the bigger target share, 10 percent against 9 percent.
Byes and availability
Jaylin Noel is off in Week 8 and Xavier Legette in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jaylin Noel is listed as ir on the injury report.
Xavier Legette is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
Week 8 on the board
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