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Jaylin Noel
Jaylin Noel is a wide receiver for the Houston Texans. Depth chart: WR4.
Scouting report
Jaylin Noel: the full picture
Jaylin Noel at a glance
Jaylin Noel is a 24-year-old wide receiver for the Houston Texans, listed at 5'11" and 200 pounds. The Houston Texans drafted Noel 79th overall in the third round in 2025, out of Iowa State; this is year two in the league.
2026 projection
Our season projection has Noel at 43.8 PPR points for 2026, which ranks WR131 at the position and works out to 2.8 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 6 games of 2026, Noel has scored 65.0 PPR points, or 10.8 per game. That is 148.3% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Noel would finish with about 184 points, ahead of the 43.8 projected. The best week so far is 20.7 points in Week 6 against JAX, the WR7 finish that week. Noel has cleared the 12-point mark we count as a usable WR start in 2 of 6 games, a 33% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 91 qualified wide receivers of 2026, Noel ranks in the 99th percentile in yards per target, the 97th percentile in average separation and the 76th percentile in receiving yards. Three of the 6 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 10th percentile in target share.
Career track record
2025 is the only completed season on record: Noel finished as WR91 with 68.4 PPR points in 17 games. The totals so far read 43 receptions, 626 receiving yards and 4 receiving touchdowns.
Jaylin Noel by the numbers
Noel has finished in the top twelve 1 time. The career high is 20.7 PPR points, set in Week 6 of 2026 against JAX. The game log also shows 1 100-yard receiving game. In all, Noel has reached 20 points in 1 game, 4% of career appearances.
Contract
Noel is playing on a four-year, $6.5 million contract signed with the Houston Texans in 2025, an average of $1.6 million per year with $1.3 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2028 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Noel carries a GV stock price of 1,931, which ranks 376th overall and WR131 among wide receivers out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Noel 417th overall. Value has moved down 1.2 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Pat Bryant, Isaiah Williams and Chris Godwin Jr. See where Noel sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 43.8
- PPR / game
- 2.8
Week 1 projection
Jaylin Noel is projected for 4.4 PPR points at home against BUF in week 1, with a likely range of 0.0 to 16.3.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is down 1.2 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 13.0
- Dynasty
- 18.7
- Superflex redraft
- 19.7
- Superflex dynasty
- 22.8
- TE premium dynasty
- 11.3
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | HOU | 6 | 21 | 17 | 334 | 2 | 4 | 26 | 65.0 |
| 2025 | HOU | 17 | 35 | 26 | 292 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 68.4 |
Wide receivers ranked near Jaylin Noel
- Barion Brown WR128 · 46.0 PPR
- Elijah Sarratt WR129 · 45.9 PPR
- Ja’Kobi Lane WR130 · 44.7 PPR
- Omar Cooper Jr. WR132 · 43.3 PPR
- Malik Benson WR133 · 43.2 PPR
- JuJu Smith-Schuster WR134 · 43.1 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
- Xavier Hutchinson WR · 106.3 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.