Should I start Xavier Hutchinson or Kevin Coleman Jr. in Week 7?
Updated Oct 22, 5:21 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Kevin Coleman Jr. over Xavier Hutchinson
- Market projects
- 3.9
- recent weeks avg
- NYJ D vs WR
- 30.2
- 12th fewest to WRs (2026)
- Market projects
- 3.6
- fantasy pts
- NYG D vs WR
- 31.1
- 14th fewest to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 54%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 17%
- Through Week 6
Start Kevin Coleman Jr.: 60 percent of the snaps and 19 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Xavier Hutchinson's 42 percent of the snaps and 14 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.
Should I drop Kevin Coleman Jr. for Xavier Hutchinson?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Xavier Hutchinson projects 38 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (3.8 a game over 10 games), Kevin Coleman Jr. 26 (2.4 a game over 11 games). For Week 7 the call starts Kevin Coleman Jr. over Xavier Hutchinson. So make the move after his Week 7 game.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR55 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 3.6 pts a game
WR83 · MIA · bye 6
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 211
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The gap
- Board size316 draftable players
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 Xavier Hutchinson, and the board ranks him 173rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kevin Coleman Jr., and the board ranks him 211th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Xavier Hutchinson's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 150th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.
The market has Kevin Coleman Jr. at 0.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 10 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Kevin Coleman Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
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.
Through Week 5, Kevin Coleman Jr. has been on the field for 51 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 13.9 air yards.
In Week 3 against KC he caught 1 of 4 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against MIN he caught 1 of 4 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against CIN he caught 3 of 7 targets for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
Kevin Coleman Jr. is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Xavier Hutchinson holds the bigger snap share, 54 percent against 51 percent.
This season Xavier Hutchinson holds the bigger target share, 17 percent against 13 percent.
Byes and availability
Xavier Hutchinson is off in Week 8 and Kevin Coleman Jr. in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Kevin Coleman Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Kevin Coleman Jr. for Xavier Hutchinson?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Xavier Hutchinson projects 38 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (3.8 a game over 10 games), Kevin Coleman Jr. 26 (2.4 a game over 11 games). For Week 7 the call starts Kevin Coleman Jr. over Xavier Hutchinson. So make the move after his Week 7 game.
Should I drop Xavier Hutchinson for Kevin Coleman Jr.?
No. Keep Xavier Hutchinson: he projects 38 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (3.8 a game over 10 games), Kevin Coleman Jr. 26 (2.4 a game over 11 games). For Week 7 the call starts Kevin Coleman Jr. over Xavier Hutchinson.
Both players in full
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