Isaiah Davis or Austin Hooper: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Isaiah Davis: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 210th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Austin Hooper: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 212th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Isaiah Davis at 3.2 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Austin Hooper at 2.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 189th highest figure of the 220 players the market prices.

Isaiah Davis's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Isaiah Davis has been on the field for 6 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 0 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 5 third down targets and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.

In Week 4 against CHI he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Austin Hooper has been on the field for 28 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against CAR he caught 2 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against GB he caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Isaiah Davis played 16 games and scored 71.2 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing RB59.

He carried 43 times for 236 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 21 of 28 targets for 186 more yards.

That came to 2.7 carries a game at 5.5 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 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 12.5 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.

Side by side

In 2025 Isaiah Davis scored 4.5 PPR points a game and Austin Hooper 3.7, 0.7 a game between them.

Isaiah Davis finished RB59 and Austin Hooper TE47, which are two different ladders.

Isaiah Davis is a running back and Austin Hooper a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Isaiah Davis is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.