Should I start Xavier Hutchinson or Mike Evans in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Xavier Hutchinson, and the board ranks him 176th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Evans, and the board ranks him 182nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Xavier Hutchinson's market-based projection is 3.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 156th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Mike Evans is 3.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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.

Mike Evans's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

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 6, Mike Evans has been on the field for 55 percent of SF snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 14.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he caught 5 of 8 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SEA he caught 7 of 10 targets for 113 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against WAS he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

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.

In 2025 Mike Evans played 8 games and scored 84.8 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing WR76.

He caught 30 of 61 targets for 368 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 7.6 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Xavier Hutchinson was available for 9 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Mike Evans scored 10.6 PPR points a game and Xavier Hutchinson 5.8, 4.8 a game between them.

Xavier Hutchinson finished WR64 that year and Mike Evans WR76.

Mike Evans had 4 more targets than Xavier Hutchinson, 61 to 57.

Xavier Hutchinson had 60 more receiving yards than Mike Evans, 428 to 368.

This season Mike Evans holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 54 percent.

This season Mike Evans holds the bigger target share, 23 percent against 17 percent.

Byes and availability

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

Mike Evans is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Mike Evans has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.