Player
Xavier Hutchinson
WR · Texans
Xavier Hutchinson: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
Regular-season Year 3 leap: 57 targets and 428 yards in 2025 — more than the prior two seasons combined.
TrendHutchinson regular-season totals by year
| Season | G | Tgt | Rec | Yds | TD | Tgt% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 12 | 19 | 8 | 90 | 0 | 4.9% |
| 2024 | 14 | 26 | 12 | 117 | 0 | 6.0% |
| 2025 | 16 | 57 | 35 | 428 | 3 | 11.2% |
Hutchinson's first two regular seasons produced 207 receiving yards combined across 26 games — quintessential back-of-the-roster usage. Year 3 flipped it: 57 targets and 428 yards in 16 regular-season games, with 3 TDs after two seasons without one.
The target-share trajectory tells the same story — 4.9% → 6.0% → 11.2% average per game. He doubled his share while also doubling his games-played total.
Regular-season targets per year
| Season | Targets |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 26 |
| 2025 | 57 |
Week 18 vs Indy (reg season) and Wild Card vs New England: 22 combined targets in Houston's two biggest games.
MilestoneHutchinson's biggest target games (2025)
| Week | Opp | Type | Tgt | Rec | Yds | Tgt% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | NE | Wild Card | 13 | 4 | 44 | 28.9% |
| 18 | IND | Reg Season | 9 | 5 | 84 | 32.1% |
| 8 | SF | Reg Season | 6 | 5 | 69 | 15.8% |
| 13 | IND | Reg Season | 5 | 2 | 39 | 15.6% |
Houston leaned on Hutchinson at the end of the year: he commanded a 32.1% target share in Week 18 at Indy and 28.9% in the Wild Card round vs. New England — both the highest single-game shares of his career.
The Wild Card line (13 targets) exceeded half his entire 2023 season total (19 regular-season targets) in a single game.
Hutchinson ran the deepest routes on the Houston WR depth chart in 2025: 10.2-yard ADOT, highest among HOU WRs with 50+ targets.
SplitHOU WR depth chart — 2025 regular season ADOT
| Player | Tgt | ADOT | Catch% | Yds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nico Collins | 120 | 12.7 | 59.2% | 1117 |
| Jayden Higgins | 68 | 12.3 | 60.3% | 525 |
| Xavier Hutchinson | 57 | 10.2 | 61.4% | 428 |
| Christian Kirk | 52 | 7.0 | 53.8% | 239 |
| Jaylin Noel | 35 | 9.3 | 74.3% | 292 |
Among Houston's WRs with 50+ targets in 2025, Hutchinson ran the shallowest routes of the top-3 but still averaged 10.2 yards of depth per target — well above the screen-and-RAC territory occupied by Kirk (7.0 ADOT) and Berrios.
His 61.4% catch rate on those intermediate routes was the highest of any Houston receiver with 50+ targets, making him the room's best intermediate efficiency option.
All 3 of his career TDs came in 2025 — and 2 of them landed in the same game.
AnomalyThrough 30 games in his first two seasons, Hutchinson found the end zone zero times. In 2025 he scored 3 times in 16 regular-season games, with 2 of them in Week 5 vs. Baltimore — a single-game total equal to his entire two-year career combined going in.
The other came in Week 8 vs. San Francisco on a 5-catch, 69-yard afternoon — his second-highest yardage day of the regular season.
3 of 8 sixth-round WRs from the 2023 draft class hit 50+ targets in Year 3 — Hutchinson is one of them.
Rare2023 6th-round WRs — 2025 regular-season targets
| Player | Pick | 2025 Tgt | 2025 Yds | 2025 TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parker Washington | 185 | 95 | 847 | 5 |
| Andrei Iosivas | 206 | 58 | 435 | 2 |
| Xavier Hutchinson | 205 | 57 | 428 | 3 |
| Kayshon Boutte | 187 | 46 | 551 | 6 |
| DeMario Douglas | 210 | 46 | 447 | 3 |
| Trey Palmer | 191 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| A.T. Perry | 195 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Elijah Higgins | 197 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Of the 8 wide receivers drafted in the 6th round of 2023, only 3 reached 50+ targets in the 2025 regular season — and Hutchinson is one of them at 57 targets.
Three of those eight (Palmer, Perry, Higgins) had zero targets in 2025. The 2023 6th-round WR class had real attrition by Year 3; Hutchinson's sustained role stands out within that group.
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