Kyle Williams or Austin Hooper: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kyle Williams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 199th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Austin Hooper at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Kyle Williams at 3.2 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 184th highest figure of the 210 players the market prices.

No season market is posted for Austin Hooper, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Kyle Williams has been on the field for 24 percent of NE snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 13.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against PIT he caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against JAX he caught 1 of 3 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 0 of 2 targets 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 Kyle Williams played 17 games and scored 49.2 PPR points, 2.9 a game, finishing WR112.

He caught 10 of 21 targets for 209 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 1.2 targets a game, a 48 percent catch rate and 20.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 30 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.

Kyle Williams was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Austin Hooper scored 3.7 PPR points a game and Kyle Williams 2.9, 0.8 a game between them.

Kyle Williams finished WR112 and Austin Hooper TE47, which are two different ladders.

Kyle Williams is a wide receiver 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

Austin Hooper has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.