Should I start Evan Engram or Austin Hooper in Week 6?
Updated Oct 19, 4:11 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.
Start Evan Engram: 56 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Austin Hooper's 20 percent of the snaps and 4 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
TE28 · DEN · bye 10
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- Market-based projection
- 5.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 150
TE · ATL · bye unlisted
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- Overall rank
- not on the board
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Evan Engram, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Austin Hooper at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Evan Engram, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Austin Hooper, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Evan Engram has been on the field for 57 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 19 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.
In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAC he caught 4 of 4 targets for 55 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Austin Hooper has been on the field for 26 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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Evan Engram played 16 games and scored 102.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing TE29.
He caught 50 of 76 targets for 461 yards and 1 touchdown, with 10 red zone targets.
That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 42 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Both were available for 16 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Evan Engram scored 6.4 PPR points a game and Austin Hooper 3.7, 2.7 a game between them.
Evan Engram finished TE29 that year and Austin Hooper TE47.
Evan Engram had 50 more targets than Austin Hooper, 76 to 26.
Evan Engram had 198 more receiving yards than Austin Hooper, 461 to 263.
This season Evan Engram holds the bigger snap share, 57 percent against 26 percent.
This season Evan Engram holds the bigger target share, 11 percent against 5 percent.
Byes and availability
Evan Engram is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Austin Hooper.
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