Should I start Kayshon Boutte or Xavier Hutchinson in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Kayshon Boutte's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 148th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Xavier Hutchinson's market-based projection is 3.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 155th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kayshon Boutte, and the board ranks him 172nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Xavier Hutchinson, and the board ranks him 178th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Kayshon Boutte has been on the field for 58 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 11.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 3 of 4 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 38 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against JAX he caught 2 of 3 targets for 16 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 Kayshon Boutte played 14 games and scored 124.1 PPR points, 8.9 a game, finishing WR51.

He caught 33 of 46 targets for 551 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 16.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 68 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 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Kayshon Boutte scored 8.9 PPR points a game and Xavier Hutchinson 5.8, 3.1 a game between them.

Kayshon Boutte finished WR51 that year and Xavier Hutchinson WR64.

Xavier Hutchinson had 11 more targets than Kayshon Boutte, 57 to 46.

Kayshon Boutte had 123 more receiving yards than Xavier Hutchinson, 551 to 428.

This season Kayshon Boutte holds the bigger snap share, 58 percent against 54 percent.

This season Xavier Hutchinson holds the bigger target share, 17 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

0.3 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.