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Xavier Hutchinson
Xavier Hutchinson is a wide receiver for the Houston Texans. Depth chart: WR2.
Scouting report
Xavier Hutchinson: the full picture
Xavier Hutchinson at a glance
Xavier Hutchinson is a 26-year-old wide receiver for the Houston Texans, listed at 6'3" and 210 pounds. The Houston Texans drafted Hutchinson 205th overall in the sixth round in 2023, out of Iowa State; this is year four in the league.
2026 projection
Our season projection has Hutchinson at 106.3 PPR points for 2026, which ranks WR78 at the position and works out to 7.1 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 6 games of 2026, Hutchinson has scored 42.5 PPR points, or 7.1 per game. That is 40.0% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Hutchinson would finish with about 120 points, ahead of the 106.3 projected. The best week so far is 10.5 points in Week 5 against TEN, the WR35 finish that week. Hutchinson has cleared the 12-point mark we count as a usable WR start in 0 of 6 games, a 0% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 91 qualified wide receivers of 2026, Hutchinson ranks in the 55th percentile in receiving yards, the 49th percentile in average separation and the 48th percentile in target share. The softest mark is the 13th percentile in receiving TDs.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Hutchinson has finished as WR153 in 2023, WR138 in 2024 and WR64 in 2025. The high-water mark is 98.0 PPR points in 2025. Across 48 regular-season games on record, the totals read 73 receptions, 876 receiving yards and 3 receiving touchdowns.
Xavier Hutchinson by the numbers
Hutchinson has finished in the top twelve 1 time. The career high is 17.9 PPR points, set in Week 8 of 2025 against SF.
How the production happens
In 2026, Hutchinson drew 6.2 targets per game at an average depth of 12.6 air yards. 32% of those targets were deep (15 or more air yards), and 1 target came in the red zone.
Contract
Hutchinson is playing on a four-year, $4.0 million contract signed with the Houston Texans in 2023, an average of $1.0 million per year with $163,700 guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2026 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Hutchinson carries a GV stock price of 2,433, which ranks 328th overall and WR114 among wide receivers out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Hutchinson 319th overall. Value has moved up 1.3 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Jalen Nailor, Ryan Flournoy and DeMario Douglas. See where Hutchinson sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 106.3
- PPR / game
- 7.1
Week 1 projection
Xavier Hutchinson is projected for 5.8 PPR points at home against BUF in week 1, with a likely range of 0.0 to 18.7.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 1.3 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 18.1
- Dynasty
- 23.6
- Superflex redraft
- 29.5
- Superflex dynasty
- 33.6
- TE premium dynasty
- 14.2
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | HOU | 6 | 34 | 18 | 241 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 42.5 |
| 2025 | HOU | 16 | 57 | 35 | 428 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 98.0 |
| 2024 | HOU | 14 | 26 | 12 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23.7 |
| 2023 | HOU | 12 | 19 | 8 | 90 | 0 | 5 | 49 | 21.9 |
Wide receivers ranked near Xavier Hutchinson
- Makai Lemon WR75 · 109.9 PPR
- Tre Harris WR76 · 107.5 PPR
- Chris Bell WR77 · 106.6 PPR
- Jahan Dotson WR79 · 105.5 PPR
- Kalif Raymond WR80 · 105.5 PPR
- Jalen McMillan WR81 · 103.8 PPR
Houston Texans fantasy players
- C.J. Stroud QB · 263.3 PPR
- Nico Collins WR · 232.4 PPR
- David Montgomery RB · 175.5 PPR
- Dalton Schultz TE · 130.8 PPR
- Woody Marks RB · 116.5 PPR
- Kayshon Boutte WR · 97.8 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.