Should I start Austin Hooper or Adam Trautman in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Austin Hooper's market-based projection is 1.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 196th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

Adam Trautman's market-based projection is 1.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 197th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Hooper, and the board ranks him 225th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Adam Trautman, and the board ranks him 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Austin Hooper has been on the field for 24 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 3.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BAL he was not given the ball.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Adam Trautman has been on the field for 49 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he was not given the ball.

In Week 6 against SEA he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Austin Hooper played 16 games and scored 59.3 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE47.

He caught 21 of 26 targets for 263 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 81 percent catch rate and 13 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Adam Trautman played 17 games and scored 45.5 PPR points, 2.7 a game, finishing TE57.

He caught 20 of 23 targets for 195 yards and 1 touchdown, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 1.4 targets a game, a 87 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Adam Trautman was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Austin Hooper scored 3.7 PPR points a game and Adam Trautman 2.7, 1.0 a game between them.

Austin Hooper finished TE47 that year and Adam Trautman TE57.

Austin Hooper had 3 more targets than Adam Trautman, 26 to 23.

Austin Hooper had 68 more receiving yards than Adam Trautman, 263 to 195.

This season Adam Trautman holds the bigger snap share, 49 percent against 24 percent.

This season Austin Hooper holds the bigger target share, 5 percent against 2 percent.

What would change the answer

0.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.