Should I start Kirk Cousins or Xavier Hutchinson in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Xavier Hutchinson, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Kirk Cousins, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Xavier Hutchinson's market-based projection is 6.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 111th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 98 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 328 times and thrown 8.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 55 of 328 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 7 against LAR he completed 26 of 44 passes for 295 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.

In Week 8 against NYJ he completed 19 of 26 passes for 247 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 5 yards.

In Week 9 against SF he completed 22 of 32 passes for 216 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions and ran 2 times for 0 yards.

Through Week 9, Xavier Hutchinson has been on the field for 58 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 3 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 51 two minute targets.

His 45 targets have averaged 11.4 air yards.

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

In Week 7 against NYG he carried 2 times for 12 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against LAC he caught 3 of 5 targets for 29 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kirk Cousins played 10 games and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.

He threw for 1721 yards on 269 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 46 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 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kirk Cousins scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Xavier Hutchinson 5.8, 5.1 a game between them.

Kirk Cousins finished QB35 and Xavier Hutchinson WR64, which are two different ladders.

Kirk Cousins is a quarterback and Xavier Hutchinson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kirk Cousins is off in Week 6 and Xavier Hutchinson in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Kirk Cousins has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.