Should I start Gunnar Helm or Austin Hooper in Week 6?
Updated Oct 19, 10:26 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.
Start Gunnar Helm: 75 percent of the snaps and 6 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.
TE30 · TEN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 4.9 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 162
TE · ATL · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- 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 Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 162nd 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 Gunnar Helm, 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 so far
Through Week 5, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 77 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 4.3 air yards.
In Week 3 against NYG he caught 2 of 4 targets for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against HOU he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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 Gunnar Helm played 16 games and scored 91.7 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE31.
He caught 44 of 55 targets for 357 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 8.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 53 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 Gunnar Helm scored 5.7 PPR points a game and Austin Hooper 3.7, 2.0 a game between them.
Gunnar Helm finished TE31 that year and Austin Hooper TE47.
Gunnar Helm had 29 more targets than Austin Hooper, 55 to 26.
Gunnar Helm had 94 more receiving yards than Austin Hooper, 357 to 263.
This season Gunnar Helm holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 26 percent.
This season Gunnar Helm holds the bigger target share, 9 percent against 5 percent.
Both players in full
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