Should I start Mark Andrews or Austin Hooper in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 208th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Hooper, and the board ranks him 217th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Mark Andrews is 2.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.

Austin Hooper's market-based projection is 1.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 187th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 66 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 2 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 33 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against TEN he caught 5 of 6 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against ATL he caught 4 of 6 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 1 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Mark Andrews played 17 games and scored 131.0 PPR points, 7.7 a game, finishing TE16.

He caught 48 of 70 targets for 422 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 4.1 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 8.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 62 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.

Mark Andrews was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Mark Andrews scored 7.7 PPR points a game and Austin Hooper 3.7, 4.0 a game between them.

Mark Andrews finished TE16 that year and Austin Hooper TE47.

Mark Andrews had 44 more targets than Austin Hooper, 70 to 26.

Mark Andrews had 159 more receiving yards than Austin Hooper, 422 to 263.

This season Mark Andrews holds the bigger snap share, 66 percent against 24 percent.

This season Mark Andrews holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Mark Andrews is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Austin Hooper.

What would change the answer

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