Should I start Makai Lemon or Xavier Hutchinson in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Makai Lemon's market-based projection is 3.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 150th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Xavier Hutchinson's market-based projection is 3.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 153rd highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Makai Lemon: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 170th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Xavier Hutchinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 172nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Makai Lemon has been on the field for 70 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 3 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 29 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAR he caught 3 of 6 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against JAX he caught 5 of 7 targets for 43 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Xavier Hutchinson has been on the field for 54 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 12.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against IND he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 51 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

Makai Lemon is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

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.

Head to head

This season Makai Lemon holds the bigger snap share, 70 percent against 54 percent.

This season Xavier Hutchinson holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 15 percent.

Byes and availability

Makai Lemon is off in Week 10 and Xavier Hutchinson in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.2 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.