Should I start Austin Hooper or Gavin Bartholomew in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Hooper, and the board ranks him 224th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gavin Bartholomew, and the board ranks him 227th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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.

The market-based projection for Gavin Bartholomew is 0.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Gavin Bartholomew's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

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 5, Gavin Bartholomew has been on the field for 31 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 32 third down targets and seen 0 of its 10 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 3.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against TB he was not given the ball.

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

In Week 5 against NO he caught 5 of 6 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

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.

The season feed carries no line for Gavin Bartholomew in the last completed season.

Head to head

This season Gavin Bartholomew holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 24 percent.

This season Gavin Bartholomew holds the bigger target share, 8 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Gavin Bartholomew is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Austin Hooper.

What would change the answer

Gavin Bartholomew has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.