Start Brian Thomas Jr. or Xavier Hutchinson? Week 6
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Xavier Hutchinson over Brian Thomas Jr.
- Market projects
- 5.7
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 54%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 18%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 4.2
- fantasy pts
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Our Week 6 call
Start Xavier Hutchinson over Brian Thomas Jr. in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Xavier Hutchinson at 5.7 points and Brian Thomas Jr. at 4.2, a gap of 1.5. No player market is posted for Xavier Hutchinson this week yet, so his 5.7 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 3, 4 and 5 (8.8, 4.6 and 3.8); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.
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What the market projects
No Week 6 player market is posted for Xavier Hutchinson yet. His market-based projections were 8.8, 4.6 and 3.8 points in Weeks 3, 4 and 5, an average of 5.7, which stands in until his Week 6 market posts.
The market gives Xavier Hutchinson a 13% chance to score a touchdown (12 market sources).
Player markets imply 4.2 fantasy points for Brian Thomas Jr., with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market-based projection for Brian Thomas Jr. is 17 receiving yards and 1-2 receptions, with a 15% chance to score a touchdown (13, 12 and 13 market sources).
That puts Xavier Hutchinson 1.5 points ahead of Brian Thomas Jr. on these projections.
Injury status
Xavier Hutchinson is not on the injury report.
Brian Thomas Jr. is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 5, Xavier Hutchinson played 54 percent of HOU snaps, drew 18 percent of the targets, earned 22 percent of the air yards and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
Xavier Hutchinson, Week 2 against CIN: 65 of 80 snaps, 9 targets and 3 catches for 37 yards.
Xavier Hutchinson, Week 3 against IND: 29 of 54 snaps, 2 carries for 4 yards, 6 targets and 3 catches for 51 yards.
Xavier Hutchinson, Week 4 against DAL: 17 of 55 snaps, 5 targets and 3 catches for 46 yards.
Xavier Hutchinson, Week 5 against TEN: 27 of 66 snaps, 5 targets and 4 catches for 65 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Xavier Hutchinson played 17 games for HOU 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 and 282 air yards.
He was on the field for 57 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR45 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 132
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 18
Ranked behind
WR · HOU · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 6, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the boardone of them is not on the board
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersnot tiered
- Board size200 draftable players
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